Comments on: Twitter is my living room, Facebook my kitchen – how I use different social networks

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[...] Twitter is my living room, Facebook my kitchen… – Erik Starck about how he uses different social networks. This one is older than a week but I hadn’t read it before and I can’t agree more so I had to post it here. [...]

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By: Jon Buscall

Jon Buscall — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:29:10 +0000

I’m with you on this one: I use Facebook for more private contacts (although the words private and the Net don’t really go together!); Twitter is more for business and networking and I hook up with professionals on LinkedIn, although this is my least favourite network.

I also find Xing quite useful here in Stockholm as there’s an active meet-up culture which is very useful.

Don’t forget your blog, too! That’s social media, isn’t it, and a great hub for conversations that you start off.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:00:39 +0000

You say that the strategy of having one English and one Swedish twitter account did not work. What about it failed?

By: Moniqa

Moniqa — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:46:27 +0000

I also use these three networks in those three ways, but there´s a fourth one – FriendFeed – that is something in between… First I wanted it to be very private, like my Facebook account, and it started out that way, but suddenly people from Twitter or totally strangers started to connect to my FriendFeed (I don´t know why) and now, FriendFeed seems to be a little like a crowded hallway that I can´t control…
Maybe that will change now since Facebook bought FriendFeed.

By: Erik Starck

Erik Starck — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:14:14 +0000

Thanks for the comments!
I think we’re all starting to learn how to use this new technology and we’re not at all using it the same way. Kind of interesting because it’s of course a social thing whether or not you accept someones friend request. Is it rude not to? Depends on if I view the social network as my kitchen or my living room or my bedroom or whatever.

By: Bangkokbronnie

Bangkokbronnie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:28:32 +0000

Great points here – and that’s roughly how I separate these social media sites too. But I am not as strict as you regarding Facebook friends – I am also friends with friends of friends even if I haven’t met them, introduce myself to people I have some connection with and make friends with strangers. Since I run a small resort in Thailand I guess my Facebook is more like the cafe at the resort than my living room so it invites conversation between people who’ve just met each other… But it is definitely chattier, more personal and funnier than Twitter…given the sense of humour of Kiwi friends

Facebook gets updated less frequently, maybe once or twice a week and Twitter much more often.

It is annoying that some people are now using the same update for the Facebook and Twitter feed and wonder if I should defriend them?

By: GAAGZ

GAAGZ — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:14:42 +0000

This is exactly how I divide my 3 internet social tools…. or at lease….how i would like to divide them as….at its best

Excellent Thoughts!