Twitter vs. Facebook: A Battle of Epic Proportions

Twitter or Facebook? Facebook or Twitter? Decisions, decisions! Initially, when Facebook was redesigned for the one millionth time, the "status update" was the hot topic of debate. After all, who cares what you're eating, reading, watching, doing or not-doing at the moment...right? And then there's those really annoying FB friends who update their status 20 times a day. If these are your gripes about Facebook and the status update, then Twitter is most likely not for you.

These were my hesitations about Twitter before I started to tweet and became a Twitter dweeb, more familiarly known as a "tweeb" (Side note: currently researching the copyrighting process for term coinage.) In fact, I only started using Twitter as a tool to update my Facebook status! But nowadays, I find myself getting frustrated with Facebook. It is no longer lightning fast -- when the pictures crank to load, I get flashbacks to the stone age of dial-up connections. ::shudder:: I also am horrified by all of the pointless applications like Farmville and WasteoftimeZoo that spam my newsfeed. Facebook is becoming more like MySpace every day. Which makes me think of pedophiles and creepers. Blech.

Thus, I have found myself enjoying Twitter so much that I have decided that I like Twitter more than Facebook. Oh, the humanity! If you had predicted that this phenomenon would happen when I was a college student, I never would have believed you. I would have screamed "Blasphemer!" right in your face and ran away with my hands over my ears.

Some may argue that Twitter is just "too hard to figure out." Well, I'm sure there's a "Twitter for Dummies" book out there that you can pick up at Barnes & Noble. Or, you could just sign up for an account and troubleshoot. Usually, the Tweebs will show you the ropes, like how to hashtag, retweet, and make @replies. Twitter even has a helpful Twitter support section for newbies. Others bash Twitter for not having the security and privacy settings of Facebook. Privacy, shmivacy. It's not like I'm tweeting my Social Security Number.

What's the point of Twitter? I don't have an answer for you. All I know is that I like to tweet and tweeting likes me. As a member of Generation Y, you have a social responsibility to at least give Twitter a college try. It won't kill ya! (But no guarantees...weirder things have happened.) Happy Tweeting!