Why Facebook Will Never Beat Twitter (for me)
All the top dog social media sites are out for each other. Specifically, there has been quite a bit of comparison between Twitter streams and Facebook updates. I can’t imagine how someone’s Facebook updates are anything like Twitter. Unless they live in a community which resembles a bee colony.
My Facebook updates don’t even compare to my Twitter profile. I started with a few friends on Facebook. Some professional and some casual. Then, lurks out the old high school buddy. (OMG, I am WAY too old for this shit) It’s like when you eat Pringles. You might start eating one, but eventually the whole damn can is in your gut. You feel like shit, over stuffed with excess crap you don’t need. My old semi-quasi-kinda know you people started this way on Facebook and grew to fill my homepage with a ton of shit.
And I mean SHIT.
No 140 characters allow my new parent friends fill their updates with how many times the kid shit, ate, burped, and doctor appointments. FUCK! TMI!
Their love sick crazy daters fall in and out of love more times then I change underwear. Sappy one min, mad the next, and ooh…gushy love notes the next. VOMIT. This is not the new script for The Notebook folks.
The whiny, over boring, updates of “Ya it’s Friday!”…holy fuck, how many people need to say this EVERY FRIDAY!
Then it’s invasion of the long distance relative whose involved in cult like Christianity and they want to be your “friend”. No thanks. I want to say “FUCK” on my updates without getting mailed a King James, New International Version, and the Living Word Bibles at Christmas.
Compare it to my Twitter stream, which can get filled with shit, but mostly I follow people who offer interesting links and snarky remarks. Everything is under 140 characters or less. Thus if your kid shits, it’s going to be short and sweet (unless you blog about, which I don’t have to view unless some sick moment compels me to). Twitter for me is a constant news stream of data. Facebook will never be that way simple because it is inundated with people who actually believe others want to hear about their bathroom habits. That shit don’t fly on Twitter. Not on my stream.
Each social media platform has its pros and cons. Their individualism allows them to compliment each other. Facebook acts a quasi email system for people I really don’t want to have my email (can you imagine the shit emails? ). Yet, Twitter allows me to have a constant stream of information getting thrown at me (like a one way conversation.). LinkedIn, allows me to put my professional face on.
Maybe for some, Facebook resembles Twitter. But as much as I enjoy @thebrandbuilder on Twitter, I don’t feel compelled to stalk him on Facebook too. 
It will be interesting to look back 10 years from now and look at the Social Media wave. I think Twitter is a very raw form of what will be a good interactive channel for people — esp. businesses and their customers. However, depending on who you are following — Twitter can feel like an obnoxious electronic billboard — where most are too busy pedaling their trinkets to stop and listen to anybody.
You sound like a big Loser! If you don’t like FB, get off it or change the privacy settings or “hide” these so-called “boring” updates/users from your newsfeed. Who says Twitter has more interesting stuff? A lot of it is the same “boring” news as the ones you’ll find in FB. It’s like signing up to receive free, unlimited spam.