I’ve been using Twitter a lot more this year, to such an extent that I don’t update my status on Facebook anymore (I just let Selective Twitter do it for me). The main reason for this is because it takes two minutes every time I start the FB app on my phone – even if I just multitasked away from it 10 seconds ok. This seems like a horrendous bug by Facebook and I’m not sure why it’s not fixed since it has very high visibility. I’m sure people have wasted thousands of hours waiting for Facebook to come up.

But my usage of Twitter has grown beyond a replacement for Facebook. I share lots of random thoughts on there now, some of which are mirrored onto Facebook and some not. I think I’ve found more use for it because not a lot of people check it – it’s not that I’m afraid of posting private stuff on Facebook, it’s that I’m afraid of flooding other people’s news feed with my updates. Instead, Twitter provides me with a corner of the internet to shout to no one – kind of like a micro blog. And so Twitter fills its intended niche in my online world now.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: facebook, twitter