My life with Facebook and Twitter

Right now I have 275 friends on Facebook. How did that happen? When I registered on Facebook I thought that I possible would get about 30 friends… Today my best friend from the gymnasium joined Facebook, at last! Of course I also use Twitter. I have three Twitter accounts: one Swedish private, one Swedish for my company Stenstrominfo.se and one English.

What’s in it for me?

There are differences in what I get from Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is more like a way to socialize, mingle and sometimes talk privately. Just as when I meet people IRL someone might show me a picture, they tell me about what they are doing and sometimes we joke and talk and I happen to become friend with someone I haven’t met face to face. But, I have in fact met most of my Facebook friends IRL. A lot of my Facebook friends are people I get to know in my work.

It’s quite interesting that the number one users of Facebook in Sweden are the people in Stockholm BUT number two are the people on Gotland! I think that is because Gotland is a special community in itself. So, that’s why Facebook has become a good chanel for receiving news. In some cases my FB friends writes about what is happening in their status or they link to a published news.

On Twitter most of the people I have contact with are persons I don’t know IRL, but we share interests. On Twitter it’s okay to follow anyone that seems to be interesting. Twitter is like a living source of information and I notice that I follow more and more people and get followed by more persons every day.

Since I am planning to write a second book about migraine I try to keep up to date in an international perspective. Twitter is really good for that. I follow a lot of migraine-twitters and get the newest information. I also follow the Apple development on Twitter.

Put that together with using the apps Flipboard and Zite and Twitter seems to be like constans, daily education. I learn so much! I like that!