Tag: Social Networking

And then came Facebook… and I am trying hard to remember when I first joined this social network after many insisting requests from my work colleagues and it happened, I had my profile with very limited gadgets and accessories when FB took the internet by storm and became the story to tell in every gathering of friends and family, even between strangers having coffee in the same shop.

I got so excited about it that I even registered 2 domain names, facebookist.com and facebookism.com and later on to be contacted by the law firm handling worldwide intellectual properties of FB asking me to handle in the 2 domains and after long email communications where we got to nowhere, I still have the 2 domains and shut down my FB profile for almost more than a year, for no specific reason, I just felt I can live without it and moved into more professional social networks.

Then one day re-activated my account again without any justification, but here came the status quo where I really did not care about it and started logging-in once a week and sometimes every 2 weeks, it did not mean much, while lots of freelancers and companies were developing new add-ons and applications to enhance your FB experience, from games, to places I have been, to pets to do you like me or not, and on and on and on… but all this did not really attract me. Also not long time ago FB re-engineered their total look which was also another dull thing to me.

To summarize the above, I got bored from Facebook.

Then earlier this year I found myself attracted back again to Twitter, for those who are not aware of what this is all about, Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called “tweets” of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

I first joined Twitter for more than 2 years now, my below twit is my first one, since then, the service did not change much, still have the same interface, no extra stuff added to the menu, even lots of people and companies are building amazing apps and sites around their API, but still the Twitter guys are keeping it simple, so far!

Nowadays I really enjoy twitting, from the office, while on the go, from bed, while driving, from anywhere, but for how long? I even got excited the same way I got for FB and registered 2 domains twtfight.com and twtwar.com with the idea of making a stupid site where people can twit and fight over a given subject, mainly it was about men vs women.

So will twitter keep me excited the same way it is doing now or I will get bored soon?
We will see and I will let you know if it ever happens.