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I am in my second year of messing with Twitter and I just can’t seem to get comfortable with it. I tweet so infrequently that I linked my Twitter to my Four Square account. Unfortunately, the only thing I really use Four Square for is noting when I go to the gym, which is at best two or three times a week.
I feel pretty comfortable posting on Facebook where I actually know the people I am “friends” with or have some kind of connection with them through mutual friends or a legitimate organization that we both belong to. Strange, random people and businesses make up most of my few Twitter followers so I am hesitant about tweeting any personal stuff. It also seems kind of redundant since I already do that on FB.
For some reason, I still want to try to use Twitter so I decided I would try something else. I am going to try tweeting “Booktweets”, mini-reviews of books I like and include links to Library Thing and World Cat. I have my Twitter account linked with FB so the Booktweets will show up there as well. My goal is to tweet a book review daily and see how it goes.
>It's funny; I'm just the opposite! I dislike almost everything about Facebook. John Scalzi explains why waaay better than I can here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/01/19/and-now-for-no-particular-reason-a-rant-about-facebook/.Twitter, on the other hand, is simple. The privacy level of my tweets are obvious. It's easier to use on my smartphone than FB. The strangers following me don't actually have time to *read* my tweets, so they don't worry me. (They're just there because people stupidly think autofollowing people is a smart idea.) The #chstrfc hashtag alone makes Twitter awesome, but the main draw for me is that you can chat with a bunch of people real time at a virtual event (like #NCIS, #Sherlock, #ALA10 or #barcampchs) without having to have them in your feeds for the rest of time. Friending someone on FB feels waaay more permanent and invasive to me.Tweeting on a specific topic that isn't your life is a great idea! You might like Twitter better if you use it that way. Let us know how it goes!