I was a 1994 MIS Grad
Was on the internet religiously before it went public (doing things I shouldn't have been doing)
Registered one of the first 10,000 domain names
Owned my own computer consulting/software company at 27, sold it at 30
No, I'm not new to social networking. But anyone who will quote a CNN article when discussing anything related to computers has ZERO credibility. But just to humor you...
So, how would you describe Facebook's status update feature? You know,
the thing where idiot girls fill up your facebook newsfeed with
pointless information about their mundane daily activities?
Irrelevant. Yes, Facebook has been tailoring the Feed more toward a twitter style of late but updates were originally not length capped whereas Twitter limits to 140 characters. Lest we forget this is ALL Twitter does while Facebook does much more serving as a place to store pictures, share notes, create blog entries and, most importantly to Facebook, like comments, organizations, places or things. Even looking at the content Twitter and Facebook are nothing alike. The 140 limit sees to that. Oh, and "twitpics" are not Twitter photo storage,
it's not even owned by Twitter. It's an image site just like imjur and a thousand others. Twitter allows you to enter links, that is all.
Not so fast. For public figures/celebrities, the public option is a
good to promote yourself. But I, and everyone I know on Twitter, joined
because it is like a "mulligan" version of facebook....
You "and everyone else you know" are using it for your purpose. Great, congrats. That still doesn't change that the overwhelming majority of Twitter users leave it wide open and the overwhelming majority of Facebook users institute some sort of privacy. Your personal habits are meaningless to the argument. Also, the vast majority of famous people who use Facebook have a public page and a private page. So what you see from them isn't "their" page. It's marketing. Their personal page is private like everyone else.
Nope, just absolutely wrong. <blah> <blah> I have no idea what made you
feel so emboldened to say that the percentage was 99%, but that
percentage is ludicrous
I didn't realize I was going to have to source my paper professor. I think anyone with a brain can understand the 99% was an intentional exaggeration. The point was that most Facebook pages are private. Sure, you can go track down stupid high school kids and stupid old people that have open pages. The point is, the expectation most people have when going to Facebook is that they will have to "friend" someone to see their stuff.
Why do I get the feeling that if this was reversed (a NAFOOM thread about, lets say, Dee Arrington) that you would be totally on my side of the argument?
Because you obviously don't know me. I'm a lot of things, but inconsistent isn't one of them.
Look, I understand you put a lot of faith in CNN. Hell, who wouldn't? When I think about who on this planet knows more about technology than anyone else I naturally gravitate toward CNN as well. (Since you have a hard time with hyperbole let me point out that is sarcasm). It is part of my job, and my hobby, to understand the tech world. I read dozens of tech blogs and listen to tech podcasts (some suggestions are
Wired,
Ars Technica, and my favorite podcast
TWiT (This Week in Tech)). All of this is leading up to one point:
<font size="4"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anyone who thinks Twitter and Facebook are even remotely the same thing is a huge $!%@%#% dumbass [sic].</span></font>