Comment: 5 reasons how twitter helps with engagement

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I'd like to respond to this article on Social Media Today. Up until a few months ago, I didn't have a twitter. I never really understood it, and there is still a lot for me to learn, but I have to agree with this article comparing it to Facebook and other networking sites. Twitter is a little safer and more discrete than Facebook and doesn't have all the other games and tools that Facebook is adding. Facebook is almost becoming too much sometimes. Yes, it can be very helpful in keeping in touch with friends and seeing what everyone is doing and other stuff, but as the article states, it's not very private and Twitter can do a lot of stuff that Facebook can't. It allows you to follow celebrities and directly tweet to them or respond to something they have posted, you can say what you want in a short space so that you are to the point and everyone knows what's really important, you can connect with people you never could connect with on Facebook, and you can just see what's going on in the world besides in your little circle of friends by just reading tweets on your home page. I think it's definitely a good place to help with engagement and finding new connections..you never know who you will connect with or what will happen from those connections. There's always all sorts of opportunities like contests and such that could be really cool. I think it's possible that Facebook could become irrelevant someday, and a lot sooner than Twitter will, for these reasons. 

Facebook Graph Search

Facebook is doing a great job with trying not to become irrelevant like Myspace, Buddy Profile, Xanga, and plenty of other social media sites from the past. While the others either didn't offer enough or became creepy, Facebook just keeps adding new things to it to keep people interested. It appears now that Google is attempting to compete with Facebook by trying to have chat on Gmail, Google+ where you can add friends to your page, and personalizing your page. The thing that Facebook is now doing that Google has not, it it's helping you find restaurants and places based on reviews your actual friends have given it rather than strangers or possibly employees of a restaurant giving their opinion online. And a lot of the times you only find a lot of bad reviews for restaurants and you don't always know if you can trust them. It's called the Facebook Graph Search. Mark Zuckerberg has really got it going on. He's young and so smart and always seems to know what the users of Facebook really want and seems to be ahead of many other sites. If Mark Zuckerberg keep this up and if it actually works with no bugs, it is going to make the Google search much more irrelevant.