Image via CrunchBaseMy Twitter account went out of hand a long time ago. I have about 45,000 followers and I follow almost all of them back. I decided a long time ago I was going to use Twitter as a broadcast network. It is my own little TV station, my own little radio station. No expectations of intimacy there.
Facebook is a little less of a broadcast network for me but even there my response to over 200 pending friend requests from people I don't know was to put the privacy setting to "Everyone." There I have high school friends and college friends and people I have met in person, and a few I have never met except online, and that's okay. But the number one feature at my Facebook account is I have uploaded more than 10,000 pictures of New York City. My high school and college circles are far from the city I live in, and I wanted people to have a feel for the city I live in. My blogs feed into my Facebook stream. So it is a little bit of a broadcast network too, but not like Twitter where you don't only see my blog posts, but also articles I might read out and about.
Facebook is a little less of a broadcast network for me but even there my response to over 200 pending friend requests from people I don't know was to put the privacy setting to "Everyone." There I have high school friends and college friends and people I have met in person, and a few I have never met except online, and that's okay. But the number one feature at my Facebook account is I have uploaded more than 10,000 pictures of New York City. My high school and college circles are far from the city I live in, and I wanted people to have a feel for the city I live in. My blogs feed into my Facebook stream. So it is a little bit of a broadcast network too, but not like Twitter where you don't only see my blog posts, but also articles I might read out and about.