<p>Facebook. I run a basketball organization essentially through facebook. Parents don’t check their email everyday but they do check fb. It has been a godsend for communicating with people in my nonprofit. I’d be furious if it went down because it would just be a nightmare trying to get a hold of parents. I know because I’ve been doing this for 7 years and only one with fb. </p>
<p>Twitter is just annoying because I don’t really care about your random thought.</p>
<p>Let’s hope so Leo… Facebook needs to stop changing so many things. I liked Facebook circa 2006-2007. Much better design back then.</p>
<p>Tumblr. Although I do agree that Facebook is great for having ways to get in touch with people and networking for my gigs, as well as the fact that I follow a zillion comedians and musicians (collectively “famous people”) on Twitter and basically use it as a plaform to interact with them. </p>
<p>So, in summary, Facebook and Twitter are apples and oranges. Tumblr, on the other hand, is is a castle made out of gold where you get to eat ice cream for breakfast every day and never get fat.</p>
<p>Facebook and Twitter are completely different things.</p>
<p>Though, I would go with Facebook for “contacts” reasons. </p>
<p>Twitter is fairly pointless to me. I only use it when I really want to get something off my mind. I don’t read other peoples updates.</p>
<p>i don’t see how they’re that similar at all
facebook is for keeping in touch with people you already know, there are photos and things like that
twitter is just for random chatter. i have one but i only use it for news. it’s great for news.</p>
<p>@27dreams what’s so great about Tumblr? A friend of mine has one and it seems like it’s basically a blog website for 4chan users. Bunch of memes, plus their own little Tumblr memes (e.g. that annoying-as-hell habit of posts that literally consist of something like “That awkward moment when” or “People who do this”), plus porn, plus typical angsty teenage rants about the world. What’s the allure?</p>
<p>Neither. I prefer Google+.</p>
<p>RioBravo, the best thing about Tumblr is that there is a fan community for everything on there. If you like the guy from that one 70’s band that most people have forgotten about, you’ll find several other users who like the same guy and post photos and interviews you’ve never seen before. You follow them, and not the dumb hipsters who post about their “awkward moments.” If you want to have a fun conversation about that cute guy from Whose Line that none of your friends care about, there are people on Tumblr who miraculously “ship” him with the same person you do. Obviously there are also a lot of people who blog about more popular things like Doctor Who and Harry Potter, but since you can follow whoever you want, all of your favorite things show up on your dashboard at the same time and you can actually have good conversations with some of the people who share your interests.</p>
<p>Hmm, doesn’t sound so bad when you put it like that. My friend is addicted to it and we have pretty similar personalities for the most part so I suppose it could be pretty great. Might have to check it out.</p>
<p>I actually just deleted my Facebook today (for personal reasons. Will probably be back eventually.) I created a twitter a long time ago but lost interest after a few minutes. I don’t understand how twitter works, and I don’t really care to find out. I enjoy Facebook chat because it’s more convenient than texting, and sometimes I’m interested in seeing my friends’ statuses. I had a google plus for a few days, but I deleted that, too (again, personal reasons.) To answer the question, I vastly prefer Facebook to Twitter.</p>
<p>All I know is that Facebook will slowly die out when people (including myself) learn to use Google Plus. It’s so darned confusing, but people will make their way over there soon enough. Then Google will take over the world.</p>
<p>@RioBravo: another thing about Tumblr is that you have to follow the right people. Most of Tumblr is annoying. Same people, saying “Oh, don’t get a Tumblr, stay on Facebook,” and other complaining. But you can definitely find someone who has a unique take on modern news, and you can find a lot of people who relate to what you relate to. All in all, it’s a different thing than Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.</p>
<p>Last year, no one here except me said fb will fade and die. if google takes over the world, eventually it will fall too</p>
<p>Facebook probably would never have died if they hadn’t destroyed it themselves with terrible updates.</p>
<p>It gets harder to use and more pointless.</p>
<p>Is neither an option?</p>
<p>I think from now on there will always be something like Facebook though - I mean when you consider the vast amount of people on it and how even businesses use it, it’s such a huge, huge thing. I would be very surprised if something overtook Facebook, and I think if that happened it would take years and years. You can bring out the MySpace analogy, but when MySpace was popular, people weren’t using the internet as much as they are now. There are also a lot of older people on Facebook who aren’t going to be all about the next big thing and jump aboard the new trend, be it Google Plus or whatever it is. Facebook is just so incredibly far-reaching that I think it would be very difficult to overtake, much harder than most people think. I also think Google Plus has a lot of flaws right now and I don’t like it…I think Facebook is more likely to implement the features that are cool about Google Plus and just kind of absorb it.</p>
<p>I personally quite like Facebook. I use it to organize my entire social life, and I would probably be lost without it…or at least everything would be a lot harder to coordinate. I spend a lot of time on it as well. I don’t like Twitter…I can’t remember to use it and it seems more for getting the opinions and thoughts of celebrities or other people you don’t know. I don’t think one is a replacement for the other though.</p>
<p>facebook is just a million things reinvernted, going back to the Greek forums. Facebook is not ground breaking or origional</p>
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<p>Yes, this is quite possibly the most stressful thing in the world…</p>
<p>Can somebody tell me what is good about Google+? I can’t find anything useful other than the group video chat (hangout). What I like about Facebook is that everything is so public, so random people you’re friends with can chime in on conversations that you have with different people; that’s what makes it so interesting for me. Therefore, the circles thing is pretty useless. What else is useful?</p>
<p>Some people like the circles thing because it controls what you share with different groups of people, like coworkers or family might not appreciate your drunk pics, but you can just share them with your friends circle. Not everyone really needs that though.</p>
<p>I don’t like Google Plus except for the group hangout thing. That’s the only time I ever go on it…although I don’t have that many friends on it because most people refuse to use it, lol. That’s okay though, I like Facebook better.</p>