The Top 3: Compare & Contrast Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

Ahhh...social media...my favorite time suck of all time! Before we even begin with this week's assignment I have to admit how difficult it was for me to even start it. I have accounts with all three of the social media sites that I decided to compare and contrast but to be honest, I'd never really taken the time to really investigate all of the features on any of them. I kind of just stumbled my way through each of them, collecting friends and followers, never aspiring to be "social media famo

us" or anything like that. I just wanted to be able to swap funny stories, recipes, and keep up with people that I don't have an opportunity to see as often as I'd like. With that being said, I do spend a shameful amount of time on these social media sites and, like to today, I'm not very focused on getting anything productive done.
So, without further ado lets get the comparison done so I can get back to wasting time (lol).....

There is so much more to compare than I could put in the table...or maybe it is that The comparisons and contrasts can be seen a little better outside of a simple excel table. For Instance, I think that it's interesting when you think of your Facebook "friends" versus your Instagram and Twitter "followers". Most of us on Facebook have some our distance family and friends that may have moved to a different location on our pages but on Instagram and Twitter, many times, people who are "followers" may have never even met you in person. They can just follow you unless you actually take steps to make you page more "secure". The reason I put the word secure in quotations is because I sometimes question how secure a social media page really is...I was recently hacked, someone out there made a fake Fb page using my pics trying to friends some of my people who alerted me and I was able to get it taken down pretty quickly but...it was kind of freaky that someone would take the time to actually pretend to be me...

All in all, while most of these sites have lots in common the also have some pretty marked difference...just a few are outlined in the table above. I believe your level of satisfaction and use of these social media sites all depends on what it is you want to share. If you want to share EVERYTHING Facebook may be your speed while Twitter's 140 characters may be more attractive to people who like short bursts of communication, and Instagram is somewhere in the middle with the  sharing of pictures and short messages.