Real Men of Genius: Social Media edition
by that damn redhead on October 11, 2009
in Funny, Miscellaneous, Social Media
(Real men of genius!)
Tonight, I salute YOU, Mr. “I-Sync-My-Twitter-and-Facebook-Accounts”!
(Mr. I-Sync-My-Twitter-and-Facebook-Status!)
Yes, you sir, are oblivious that your Facebook friends really don’t care about your every move & your Twitter followers are a) mostly the same people, and b) annoyed as hell.
(Absolutely, completely oblivious!)
It’s imperative that you tell EVERYONE POSSIBLE about that ham sandwich you had for lunch, or that you are happy it’s football season, because you are just. that. important.
(I’m big on the internet! I’m big in Japan! Germany loves me!)
So go on and open a Ping.fm account, Mr. Twitter-Facebook-Syncer, because YOU are a REAL MAN OF GENIUS.
(Inspired by the Bud Light “Real Men of Genius” radio commercials, you can hear all of them here.)
Facebook and Twitter are different groups of people. Yes, there are duplicates, but they are different networks
I find a lot of value in syncing the accounts; I get a lot of facebook feedback on my tweets, and if I didn’t, I’d probably never use facebook at all.
I understand the annoyance with duplicates for facebook friends that are also on twitter, but for those who aren’t, anything I’d tweet is something I’d put on facebook anyway.
I’m not a person who has a “social media agenda” – I tend to use the SM networks for their purest purpose. Twitter and Facebook ask the same question: What are you doing? What’s on your mind?
There is only one answer to that question at any given moment; what should I do? Type it twice? If I want to tell people about myself, what I am doing, what my event is, a funny thing my kid said, or a picture I took, why should I have to pick and choose social networks?
I find it helpful. To each his own.
I know at least for me, my friends and family would kill me if I sync’d twitter to Facebook, I tweet 10-20 times a day and I think once you pass 5 daily facebook updates it just becomes noise. I know when I started, I sync’d the two initially and found out several of my close friends and family had hidden me from their Facebook feeds because of it, and I don’t blame them.
Twitter and Facebook ask the same question, but I don’t necessarily think the same volume of updates works for both services.
I’ll blast out the occassional duplicate to Facebook, but I use Tweetdeck’s Facebook update ability to chose which updates go to both and which go to Twitter or Facebook only.
This. Is. Brilliant. (Even though I’m totally guilty of linking!)