Twitter to Facebook ....

I was aware of Twitter and Facebook before entering Creative Communications at Red River College, but had no desire or need to use said social media before.

I had to sign up for Twitter in my first semester Public Relations course, and then not to long afterwards, on my own, opened a Facebook account.

So far I use Facebook much more frequently then Twitter. Part of the reason is that you can create photo albums which is a quick way to get pictures out to family and friends without having to develop and physically mail pictures.

Facebook has some other interesting features as well like the birthday function and being able to simply get someones attention by 'poking' them.

To me personally, Twitter is a scaled down version of Facebook, and Facebook is winning the social media battle for myself personally in terms of features and functions that I like.

My wife has had a Facebook account for sometime before me, but she rarely uses it. I have a cousin who refuses to use Facebook because he doesn't want his personal life to mix with his business life in light of privacy issues that Facebook has had to deal with over the past year.

I do have former work colleagues and friends on Facebook which is indispensable as a means of getting a hold of people you don't see on a regular basis, or finding people you might not have seen in years.

On the other hand, I do sometimes feel frustrated when I say I have posted pictures on Facebook and someone wants to see said pictures and they indicate they don't have a Facebook account.

One side of Twitter and Facebook that I haven't really been able to get a sense of fully yet is the business potential for both forms of social media.

On Twitter I've noticed you can follow anyone from a celebrity to a scientist. Short form messages do have the potential to say a lot; potentially just as much as an elaborate Facebook page for a business or PR campaign.

The rapidity of information as well as the complexity or simplicity of information has been transformed by Facebook and Twitter. I can simply assume that whatever career in communications I have in the future, that Twitter or Facebook will be some part of it.