(Networking Site) Twitter

I got a Twitter account recently. A job counsellor offered that we could do each other a favour, her giving me job leads through Twitter, and me making sure she presented herself properly. I think she might have just wanted a follower, though. It's all good. Right now, I have all my Internet methods of communication open: Twitter, Facebook, this blog, my email, and my brother's forum.

I never really took Twitter too seriously before. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but when it comes to networking sites, it seems like the newer, more "cutting edge" ones apply a logic that "less is more".

The first really mainstream networking site, MySpace, is now dying because people are moving to Facebook. The reason most people give is that Facbook is less tacky, and has a better community.

Well, if everyone's migrating, why would the community be different? They're the same people!

And as far as tackiness goes, people refer to the gaudy backgrounds and music many people put on their profiles.

So why is it that Facebook turned out so class?

Because it offered LESS! You can't put music, and you can't put backgrounds. MySpace is only dying because it failed to protect people from themselves.

And as for Twitter? It's the Facebook status function, if it had a far more extreme restriction. That's all it is. It has one function, and that function is inferior to Facebook's take on it. But Twitter is newer, and it's flourishing.