Moving to Twitter
Glitch Brings New Worries About Facebook’s Privacy – NYTimes.com.
I must confess that, aside from the very easy-to-upload-&-share photo albums, Facebook has been rather useless lately. I ignore all applications, games, send a heart, send a dinosaur, send a stone, etc. Plus, quite a few of my friends have been experiencing issues with the chat and the messages. We mostly stick to emails, then as far as I’m concerned, Facebook is only for spreading the word about news or links I get from organisations I follow, or to put some funny line in my ‘status’.
My class was on a 3 days field trip last week and well, posting the various collections of photos on FB and commenting was very funny. And yesterday I found (or she found me, rather) an old friend I haven’t talked to in 5 years. Impressive, indeed…
But at the end of the day, if every week you have to check on your privacy settings and be careful nothing you didn’t want to disclose suddenly goes public for whatever glitch the FB gurus didn’t fix… really, it becomes a drag.
Now, Twitter instead, is a quick and easy way to either stay in touch with people in between a proper email or phone call or meeting, or receive news from all over the world and spread them too. No applications, no silly games or zoo animals to entertain. It’s just one person posting short messages. Period.
If images is what you want to share online, there are a bunch of photo-sharing services for Twitter and they are quite straight forward, simple to use. What you will share on Twitter, will be public or private. Not selectively viewable by a list of friends, which suddenly goes public anyway without you even knowing it. I’m not sure this problem in particular ever happened on Facebook (private lists going public), but as someone commented in the article on The New York Times, we could very well start doubting whether to trust Facebook or not. The Privacy settings are so many and there are applications that only work with “completely public” settings. Users might be confused as to which restricted information will go public and some may even disclose previously private information unwillingly.
Then, I guess Facebook will remain a news-spreader tool as far as I’m concerned. Twitter has replaced texting with those I cannot text. Skype and emails are still my favourite. But none can beat meeting and talking face-to-face! 
My thoughts entirely
I’ve learnt a lot of good stuff via Twitter.
I ran my blog as a micro-blog from Twitter for a while (well I’ve tried most things), but the outages in Twitter really slowed the load times, maybe I’ll get around to making more of Posterous.
Dinner parties are the business for proper (cough) debate?!
I use TweetDeck for Twitter, so far so good. Sometimes it can be slow, but just for a minute or so, no biggy. I guess with the World Cup Twitter’s gonna crash more often though.
Some times the word limit is annoying, but I guess Twitter is not made to have conversations. It’s perfect for news and also micro-blogging, like you said, or posting funny lines/quotes. Plus, I think in the end the word limit can stimulate creativity, haha!
I vote for dinner parties… don’t forget the booze!