Facebook vs Twitter

There's been battles that will rage forever: iPhone vs Blackberry, Man U vs Liverpool, Bloods vs Cribs, Bulls vs Stormers, toiletpaper up vs toiletpaper down... But a battle that's really coming of age lately is Facebook vs Twitter. Being friends with people and telling them nothing vs Telling everything to people you don't know at all.

Facebook hit my life circa 2006. In my first year of Varsity one of my friends looked at me in a drunken state and said: "Like... Like why haven't you added me on Facebook yet?" Facebook then went from being a description of a library that holds ID pictures of everyone, to an obsession of mine. I mean I could see what my buddies were having for breakfast! Oh how young I was... My love for Facebook soon faltered as pokes, Farmville, random digital vampire bites and online poker messages started flooding my inbox. Random tags of myself in photos I don't even appear in, stalking by creepy Indonesian ladies and friend requests from that guy who was cool in high school but now can't even buy a friend, soon became too much.

3 years ago, more or less, Twitter hit SA shores. I never took much interest in the rage that surrounded it. The first claim to fame Twitter had was Ashton Kutcher posting a picture of Demi Moore's butt all over TwitPic, and that seemed a bit like candid camera for the web. In a digital marketing lecture 2 years ago our lecturer told us to sign up to Twitter to get marks. According to him if we weren't on it there was no way we would be able to keep up with advertising in the future. Soon I signed up and now I can't see a day without Twitter.

I get my news, my sports reports, even work updates from Twitter. Twitter will forever be remembered as the movement that retained freedom of speech for everyone. And here you can actually get real updates from people that matter. I've made more connections in terms of work, social life, business etc. than Facebook ever could do for me. I mean I'm talking to bloggers in South Korea, getting replies from Playboy magazine, meeting fellow creatives, all whilst checking what's new in the life of Gaga, Kanye and Katy Perry. To prove my point I made a little list of 5 things with which you can compare Facebook to Twitter.

Someone will always declare their undying love for someone with words like baby, sweetheart and darling.        Facebook has Farmville.        The more friends you have on Facebook the less you have in real life.       Facebook is for hearing from people you went to school with.

There’s only love for people who write meaningful stuff on Twitter          All the cows and pigs on Twitter just get unfollowed.          The more followers you have on Twitter the more friends you’ll make in real life.          Twitter is for hearing from people you wish you went to school with.