This may be nerdy, but I’ve been thinking lately about the way I use Twitter & Facebook. Before all of these thoughts I had been using Twitter as my main stream of everything. Whatever I tweeted therefore updated all of the social sites I was a part of, and I liked it. It was the ultimate social networking convergence. One simple update to feed them all. Like I mentioned that was until now. I asked myself, ” Is it important to give each network it’s due respect?” Read on to see…
I’ve been toying with the idea of separating all of these feeds and from that catering to each site as it deserves to be catered to, and starting right now I’m going to try it out and see how it works. I’m curious to see if this idea is worth anything. I will interact on Facebook how it wants and how the culture of Facebook demands, and it goes the same for any social network I am on. As long as Facebook doesn’t try to copy any more of Twitters features we will see how it works out, just ignore that Facebook’s new feature that is similar to retweeting.
Just think about it for second. Often when I tweet something it’s formatted for the way Twitter works. It has RT, or hashtags (#), or @ in the body of the tweet. That doesn’t mean anything to Facebook, or LinkedIn, etc… Each network has it’s own culture and society surrounding how you use it, and I think what you are saying can be more potent if formatted for each network. I’m sure no one on Facebook needs to see your #ff tweets, and nobody on Twitter wants to see your Farmville updates, you know?
I think from the aspect of sharing things, you can still get the same message across but make it personable for each network. So tweet your friend with the @ reply feature, but hop over to Facebook if you want it updated there as well and use their mention feature. This still get’s what you wanted to tweet across to all of your Facebook friends, but it’s formatted in a way that everyone on Facebook understands. This in theory could increase the awareness of your status updates, as many people on Facebook that see your Twitter jargon probably will ignore what you say. Who knows, but I just had the idea as of late to separate my networks and update each one separately.
This doesn’t mean you can’t share links and whatnot, but think of your audience when you do. I know in my case the people that follow me on Twitter are for the most part different than my friends on Facebook. On Twitter I have a crowd based around technology and photography and religion. Most of my friends on Facebook are from high school, or college, etc… people I’ve actually met in person. The dynamic is quite different. Especially once you throw in people on the LinkedIn network and anywhere else that you can update your status.
What do you think about this idea? Should you just stick with letting Twitter update everything or customize your updates for each network? I’ve already done one, so now I’m trying the other. I’ll get back with you, but I just wanted to share these thoughts in a short post. Let me know what your ideas are.
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