Comments on: Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/ Entrepreneur turned VC Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=6978 By: julianhalevy http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-5372 julianhalevy Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:10:54 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-5372 Who cares about either twitter or "social networks" ? Not I! But I do find it grating that in your ignorance of English grammar, you use the nonsensical expression "different than," and in your headline, no less. No doubt you received a vaulted degree from some baccalaureate-granting institution that taught you that the correct expression is "different from", or at least exposed you to people who spoke correctly; but no doubt you were too busy texting or twittering or...whatever. Who cares about either twitter or “social networks” ? Not I! But I do find it grating that in your ignorance of English grammar, you use the nonsensical expression “different than,” and in your headline, no less. No doubt you received a vaulted degree from some baccalaureate-granting institution that taught you that the correct expression is “different from”, or at least exposed you to people who spoke correctly; but no doubt you were too busy texting or twittering or…whatever.

]]> By: julianhalevy http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-11460 julianhalevy Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:10:54 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-11460 Who cares about either twitter or "social networks" ? Not I! But I do find it grating that in your ignorance of English grammar, you use the nonsensical expression "different than," and in your headline, no less. No doubt you received a vaulted degree from some baccalaureate-granting institution that taught you that the correct expression is "different from", or at least exposed you to people who spoke correctly; but no doubt you were too busy texting or twittering or...whatever. Who cares about either twitter or “social networks” ? Not I! But I do find it grating that in your ignorance of English grammar, you use the nonsensical expression “different than,” and in your headline, no less. No doubt you received a vaulted degree from some baccalaureate-granting institution that taught you that the correct expression is “different from”, or at least exposed you to people who spoke correctly; but no doubt you were too busy texting or twittering or…whatever.

]]> By: Waymon Wilkerson http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-5373 Waymon Wilkerson Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:11:08 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-5373 I never was a big fan of Facebook or hardly use it. So I've decided to give this a shot after hearing the constant praises of the social and professional benefits it can yield. But so far I'm finding it to be extremely frustrating. I realize the openness of Twitter allows for more scalability than the socially confined FB. Most of my friends use Twitter as an extension of FB. But than I ask myseld: why am I doing this? What's my purpose? And as a result, makes me question who to follow? The ambiguity and overload of information is almost overbearing to me. For example, if I were to use this to find a job or try to break into a new industry, do you refine your posts to just contacting individuals in those areas and type of conversations? Or would people find you to be too socially inept? On the flip side, if your profile is scattered with social chatter with friends, would others see this as someone not too concerned with their professional outlook? And that's not scratching the iceberg, what's the deal with lists? If I create lists for 5 or so new sources, I still have to scour 100+ headlines in a day. How am I supposed to parse out the articles that really matter or are of interest to me? <br><br>Ideally, I would like to use this as a professional networking tool, but I'm not sure ''how". Am I posting a tweet every hour or day? what am I supposed to tweet? who do I tweet directly? Should I be concerned about who's following me, etc. Despite this headache, I'm going to keep working at it and hopefully it'll 'click' someday. I never was a big fan of Facebook or hardly use it. So I've decided to give this a shot after hearing the constant praises of the social and professional benefits it can yield. But so far I'm finding it to be extremely frustrating. I realize the openness of Twitter allows for more scalability than the socially confined FB. Most of my friends use Twitter as an extension of FB. But than I ask myseld: why am I doing this? What's my purpose? And as a result, makes me question who to follow? The ambiguity and overload of information is almost overbearing to me. For example, if I were to use this to find a job or try to break into a new industry, do you refine your posts to just contacting individuals in those areas and type of conversations? Or would people find you to be too socially inept? On the flip side, if your profile is scattered with social chatter with friends, would others see this as someone not too concerned with their professional outlook? And that's not scratching the iceberg, what's the deal with lists? If I create lists for 5 or so new sources, I still have to scour 100+ headlines in a day. How am I supposed to parse out the articles that really matter or are of interest to me?

Ideally, I would like to use this as a professional networking tool, but I'm not sure ''how”. Am I posting a tweet every hour or day? what am I supposed to tweet? who do I tweet directly? Should I be concerned about who's following me, etc. Despite this headache, I'm going to keep working at it and hopefully it'll 'click' someday.

]]> By: Waymon Wilkerson http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-11461 Waymon Wilkerson Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:11:08 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-11461 I never was a big fan of Facebook or hardly use it. So I've decided to give this a shot after hearing the constant praises of the social and professional benefits it can yield. But so far I'm finding it to be extremely frustrating. I realize the openness of Twitter allows for more scalability than the socially confined FB. Most of my friends use Twitter as an extension of FB. But than I ask myseld: why am I doing this? What's my purpose? And as a result, makes me question who to follow? The ambiguity and overload of information is almost overbearing to me. For example, if I were to use this to find a job or try to break into a new industry, do you refine your posts to just contacting individuals in those areas and type of conversations? Or would people find you to be too socially inept? On the flip side, if your profile is scattered with social chatter with friends, would others see this as someone not too concerned with their professional outlook? And that's not scratching the iceberg, what's the deal with lists? If I create lists for 5 or so new sources, I still have to scour 100+ headlines in a day. How am I supposed to parse out the articles that really matter or are of interest to me? <br><br>Ideally, I would like to use this as a professional networking tool, but I'm not sure ''how". Am I posting a tweet every hour or day? what am I supposed to tweet? who do I tweet directly? Should I be concerned about who's following me, etc. Despite this headache, I'm going to keep working at it and hopefully it'll 'click' someday. I never was a big fan of Facebook or hardly use it. So I've decided to give this a shot after hearing the constant praises of the social and professional benefits it can yield. But so far I'm finding it to be extremely frustrating. I realize the openness of Twitter allows for more scalability than the socially confined FB. Most of my friends use Twitter as an extension of FB. But than I ask myseld: why am I doing this? What's my purpose? And as a result, makes me question who to follow? The ambiguity and overload of information is almost overbearing to me. For example, if I were to use this to find a job or try to break into a new industry, do you refine your posts to just contacting individuals in those areas and type of conversations? Or would people find you to be too socially inept? On the flip side, if your profile is scattered with social chatter with friends, would others see this as someone not too concerned with their professional outlook? And that's not scratching the iceberg, what's the deal with lists? If I create lists for 5 or so new sources, I still have to scour 100+ headlines in a day. How am I supposed to parse out the articles that really matter or are of interest to me?

Ideally, I would like to use this as a professional networking tool, but I'm not sure ''how”. Am I posting a tweet every hour or day? what am I supposed to tweet? who do I tweet directly? Should I be concerned about who's following me, etc. Despite this headache, I'm going to keep working at it and hopefully it'll 'click' someday.

]]> By: julianhalevy http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-5371 julianhalevy Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:10:54 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-5371 Who cares about either twitter or "social networks" ? Not I! But I do find it grating that in your ignorance of English grammar, you use the nonsensical expression "different than," and in your headline, no less. No doubt you received a vaulted degree from some baccalaureate-granting institution that taught you that the correct expression is "different from", or at least exposed you to people who spoke correctly; but no doubt you were too busy texting or twittering or...whatever. Who cares about either twitter or “social networks” ? Not I! But I do find it grating that in your ignorance of English grammar, you use the nonsensical expression “different than,” and in your headline, no less. No doubt you received a vaulted degree from some baccalaureate-granting institution that taught you that the correct expression is “different from”, or at least exposed you to people who spoke correctly; but no doubt you were too busy texting or twittering or…whatever.

]]> By: Waymon Wilkerson http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-5370 Waymon Wilkerson Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:11:08 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-5370 I never was a big fan of Facebook or hardly use it. So I've decided to give this a shot after hearing the constant praises of the social and professional benefits it can yield. But so far I'm finding it to be extremely frustrating. I realize the openness of Twitter allows for more scalability than the socially confined FB. Most of my friends use Twitter as an extension of FB. But than I ask myseld: why am I doing this? What's my purpose? And as a result, makes me question who to follow? The ambiguity and overload of information is almost overbearing to me. For example, if I were to use this to find a job or try to break into a new industry, do you refine your posts to just contacting individuals in those areas and type of conversations? Or would people find you to be too socially inept? On the flip side, if your profile is scattered with social chatter with friends, would others see this as someone not too concerned with their professional outlook? And that's not scratching the iceberg, what's the deal with lists? If I create lists for 5 or so new sources, I still have to scour 100+ headlines in a day. How am I supposed to parse out the articles that really matter or are of interest to me? <br><br>Ideally, I would like to use this as a professional networking tool, but I'm not sure ''how". Am I posting a tweet every hour or day? what am I supposed to tweet? who do I tweet directly? Should I be concerned about who's following me, etc. Despite this headache, I'm going to keep working at it and hopefully it'll 'click' someday. I never was a big fan of Facebook or hardly use it. So I've decided to give this a shot after hearing the constant praises of the social and professional benefits it can yield. But so far I'm finding it to be extremely frustrating. I realize the openness of Twitter allows for more scalability than the socially confined FB. Most of my friends use Twitter as an extension of FB. But than I ask myseld: why am I doing this? What's my purpose? And as a result, makes me question who to follow? The ambiguity and overload of information is almost overbearing to me. For example, if I were to use this to find a job or try to break into a new industry, do you refine your posts to just contacting individuals in those areas and type of conversations? Or would people find you to be too socially inept? On the flip side, if your profile is scattered with social chatter with friends, would others see this as someone not too concerned with their professional outlook? And that's not scratching the iceberg, what's the deal with lists? If I create lists for 5 or so new sources, I still have to scour 100+ headlines in a day. How am I supposed to parse out the articles that really matter or are of interest to me?

Ideally, I would like to use this as a professional networking tool, but I'm not sure ''how”. Am I posting a tweet every hour or day? what am I supposed to tweet? who do I tweet directly? Should I be concerned about who's following me, etc. Despite this headache, I'm going to keep working at it and hopefully it'll 'click' someday.

]]> By: Matthew A Myers http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-11462 Matthew A Myers Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:05:14 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-11462 Without having read your full post yet I will say this: I find myself currently using Twitter to get a feel for people, to see what they're interested in, to see their intelligence and understanding of things, to see their personality - to see if I like them and would want to do business with them and be associated further. I'm doing this with blogs I'm reading and participating in too. On the other side of things, I hope people will be using it the same way to get a feel for me. You don't really get the same real personality from reading static information on someone's profile. Without having read your full post yet I will say this: I find myself currently using Twitter to get a feel for people, to see what they're interested in, to see their intelligence and understanding of things, to see their personality – to see if I like them and would want to do business with them and be associated further. I'm doing this with blogs I'm reading and participating in too. On the other side of things, I hope people will be using it the same way to get a feel for me. You don't really get the same real personality from reading static information on someone's profile.

]]> By: Matthew A Myers http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-5369 Matthew A Myers Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:05:14 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-5369 Without having read your full post yet I will say this: I find myself currently using Twitter to get a feel for people, to see what they're interested in, to see their intelligence and understanding of things, to see their personality - to see if I like them and would want to do business with them and be associated further. I'm doing this with blogs I'm reading and participating in too. On the other side of things, I hope people will be using it the same way to get a feel for me. You don't really get the same real personality from reading static information on someone's profile. Without having read your full post yet I will say this: I find myself currently using Twitter to get a feel for people, to see what they're interested in, to see their intelligence and understanding of things, to see their personality – to see if I like them and would want to do business with them and be associated further. I'm doing this with blogs I'm reading and participating in too. On the other side of things, I hope people will be using it the same way to get a feel for me. You don't really get the same real personality from reading static information on someone's profile.

]]> By: fionacowan http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-11463 fionacowan Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:26:20 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-11463 I was such a Twitter-sceptic at first. But now, I wouldn't be without it for work contacts and information gathering. Through Twitter I became a script consultant for The Archers on BBC Radio 4. And featured in a UK-wide booklet promoting volunteering as a local councillor to those who don't fit the volunteer stereotype. And never have to scrape around for material for the website I host for the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Facebook can't do all that!<br><br>The 'real life'/online nature of friendships is fascinating. My other half and I meet up 3 or 4 times a year with a bunch of mates I met on the blog linked to Radio 4's evening news programme, PM. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm</a>. They are real, intelligent, varied, fascinating people ... and their grown up kids are the only ones who think any of this is weird!<br><br>Thanks for sharing, Mark. Loved this article and will RT it widely on Twitter. (Thanks to whoever it was originally RT'd it to me.)<br><br>Fiona Cowan<br>@Fiona_WordsBird <br><br>Facebook is great for I was such a Twitter-sceptic at first. But now, I wouldn't be without it for work contacts and information gathering. Through Twitter I became a script consultant for The Archers on BBC Radio 4. And featured in a UK-wide booklet promoting volunteering as a local councillor to those who don't fit the volunteer stereotype. And never have to scrape around for material for the website I host for the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Facebook can't do all that!

The 'real life'/online nature of friendships is fascinating. My other half and I meet up 3 or 4 times a year with a bunch of mates I met on the blog linked to Radio 4's evening news programme, PM. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm. They are real, intelligent, varied, fascinating people … and their grown up kids are the only ones who think any of this is weird!

Thanks for sharing, Mark. Loved this article and will RT it widely on Twitter. (Thanks to whoever it was originally RT'd it to me.)

Fiona Cowan
@Fiona_WordsBird

Facebook is great for

]]> By: fionacowan http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/15/twitter-networks-are-different-than-social-networks/comment-page-3/#comment-11464 fionacowan Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:20:58 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=2141#comment-11464 I really enjoyed this, Mark. I was a real Twit-sceptic at first but now rely on it heavily for work, and use Facebook just for keeping up with friends or music ventures. Through Twitter I became a script consultant for the BBC's longest running radio drama! <br><br>Some of the best friends I have were met through the blog linked to BBC Radio 4's evening news magazine programme 'PM'. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm</a> ... we meet up 3 or 4 times a year, and only our grownup children seem to think it's weird. <br><br>There's a social study to be done on social networking. Wish I had the skills to do it!<br><br>Fiona Cowan<br>@Fiona_WordsBird I really enjoyed this, Mark. I was a real Twit-sceptic at first but now rely on it heavily for work, and use Facebook just for keeping up with friends or music ventures. Through Twitter I became a script consultant for the BBC's longest running radio drama!

Some of the best friends I have were met through the blog linked to BBC Radio 4's evening news magazine programme 'PM'. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm … we meet up 3 or 4 times a year, and only our grownup children seem to think it's weird.

There's a social study to be done on social networking. Wish I had the skills to do it!

Fiona Cowan
@Fiona_WordsBird

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