It was brought to my attention that Facebook friends might not appreciate you allowing Twitter to update your Facebook status if you are a heavy tweeter. This news concerned me because I would never want to annoy my friends and be thought of as a post whore.
I'm not sure if I'm really a heavy tweeter, but on average I update my status about 18 times a day, not including any extra links or photos I may post on Facebook. My thought were, I like being able to update my status in one place instead or two (or three if you count Brightkite). I don't say anything on Twitter that I wouldn't also say on Facebook, and if I do, I delete that post on Facebook. Also, I figured if a Facebook friend didn't like what I had to say or how much I post, they have the option to hide my updates from their news feed. I posed a question on Facebook to get my friends' opponions on this matter and only got one response saying he didn't mind, so maybe all my friends have blocked my updates. LOL! Anyway, Facebook is trying their hardest to be like Twitter, so isn't it fitting to link your updates between the two sites?
One drawback could be seeing the same updates if you're friends with someone on Twitter and Facebook and they link their updates. I have a handful of friends that fall into this catagory. An easy solution I use to get around this is creating group lists in Facebook that exclude anyone whose updates I already see on Twitter. With some quick and easy tweaks in Facebook, I can't understand why anyone would have to be irritated because of a friend's quantity or quality of updates. Besides, I have plenty of friends who update their Facebook status as much as I do that don't even use Twitter.
So I'm curious, how do you feel about Facebook/Twitter linking? Does it bother you if someone posts a lot whether from Facebook or Twitter?
UPDATE: Poll Results 5/3/09 - 5/10/09
Do you allow Twitter to update your Facebook status?
30% Yes
38% No
15% It's annoying
15% Meh
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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I linked my Twitter and Facebook statuses in a trial around the time Facebook changed to their new "Twitter-esque" news feed. It lasted all of a week before people started complaining that I was commandeering their news feeds, so I quickly disabled it.
ReplyDeleteTrue, maybe the problem of people getting annoyed by constant updates could be averted with a little effort, but this is also effort most people are not willing to (or, in the rare case, learn how to) implement. They want something that just works.
Yes, enabling the Twitter app on Facebook becomes annoying fairly quickly (for people who have friended you on both networks). At this point in time, it's a sacrifice between convenience,proper internet etiquette, and abandoning a network altogether. However, I promise you that there is a better solution on the way - one that will "just work" for the casual user, yet offer a plethora of additional functionalities for social network junkies. :)
ReplyDeleteI find that more people comment on my Twitter-fed status updates than when I posted normal status updates so I keep it flowing.
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