The way I think about Twitter and Facebook is very different. I get creeped out when people I don’t know add me as a “friend” on Facebook but have no problem with random “followers” on Twitter. And yet my Twitter updates are much more personal updates. It seems that I have a higher inclination to share the truth with strangers and not with those who know me, even as an acquaintance.
However, even in saying this, most of the people who would read my tweets are my friends anyway, so I don’t know why there is this difference in my mind.
The real thoughts that I have remain for my closest friends, however there is an element of thinking that my thoughts in Tweets will get lost in the tweetosphere but they are free from the prison of my mind. Most of my tweets are a tamed version of the real frustrations and annoyances in my little world. I do think Social Media, whether Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Vlogs, or Forums, etc, are a helpful outlets of self-expression. The fact that most people have one or the other nowadays reveals our need to express, I just wonder what I would have been like if I had lived 50 years ago. How did our predecessors, those who weren’t professional expressionists (that being artists, writers, etc) express themselves?
