Insights&Inspiration

Twitter has been serving as a wonderful resource for me – a place where I can pick through and gather useful information on my varied interests, including largely digital marketing and technology trends and tips; web design and development trends, tip and tutorials; and all that crosses these lines (social media, viral marketing, etc.).   The tweeps I have chosen to follow frequently share valuable links and tidbits that help me to further educate myself in the various categories of information I am drawn to. (more…)

To me this move signifies what may be the beginning of the fall of Facebook.

I believe Facebook just became to Twitter as Myspace has become to Facebook -  a copycat, a poser that is recycling used technology because they don’t want to fall behind in the race and be forgotten.  When Facebook came in they had it nailed – a general concept that people were beginning to really latch on to meshed with a completely original, vastly improved interface with deep functionality. But technology and the demands of users morph over time, and Twitter has developed an approach that users seem to really get. (more…)

Photo by Stabilo BossIn the opinion of many social media skeptics:

Facebook
Use to flood your friends’ news feeds with how many points you scored in bejeweled and what fruit the quiz of the day claims you are most like. Tell everyone how hard life is and how sad you are about your breakup. Also great for wasting massive amounts of time. Used primarily to communicate with friends in various ways though.

MySpace
Use to start fights, play mafia wars (and spam your friends to get them to play too), complain about your life, tell everyone how depressed you are, or brag. Also used secondarily as a way to communicate with actual friends.

Twitter
“I don’t get the point of Twitter.”

Side note: I have heard that to those who get it but don’t like it, Twitter resembles a giant game of telephone/operator.

And my take:

Facebook
An innovative form of social media predominantly used to provide various means of communicating with friends,; form the quick note (comment/wall post) to the full email (direct message), as well as through looking at photos and other media a friend may post and give your comment/feedback on those items. Apps are just an added benefit for those who spend a lot of time on the site and want to do something other than just snoop on friends all day. Also is a great way to hook people who aren’t as into the friends aspect, or don’t have a lot of friends they keep in touch with on Facebook, but still keep them on the site. Also great medium for viral marketing,

Myspace
See previous post: Why I am officially over myspace.
I think myspace was great at one time, but now the only people who use it are those who are left hovering between myspace and Facebook due to the split of friends who remain on myspace vs. Facebook, or those who are really just not up on the times and don’t realize how much better Facebook is.

Twitter

It can be whatever you want it to be. If you want to sue it to keep up on celeb gossip, then you follow all your favorite celebs and that’s what it is. If you want to add to your giant selection of great quotes, there are a lot of people you can follow who constantly post great quotes. In my case, I want to use it primarily to network and gather knowledge/resources from fellow web developers and designers as well as advertising professionals so I can learn and improve my skills/knowledge, I follow a lot of great people who are constantly sharing links to articles, tutorials and the like. Secondarily, I use it to just keep up with friends and it can be great for that as well.