An article I recently read said that smarter people tend to enjoy using Twitter over Facebook when using social networking. A study at Michigan State also revealed that students who use Twitter tend to be more engaged with their studies and have higher grades.
As I have said before in my blog I prefer Twitter to Facebook. I don't know if I see any correlation between Twitter and my grades but I feel like Twitter helps me to stay connected with current affairs more than Facebook does. When the presidential debates were on I recorded them but followed the hashtags on Twitter because I wanted to know what people were saying about the candidates. I follow a lot of people on Twitter that I really respect the opinions of. Mostly the people I wanted to read tweets about were celebrities that I respect. When I would get on Facebook during the debates I felt like it was just a bunch of people complaining about the candidates and not really saying anything productive about the debate. This may just be one example but I feel like Twitter is more educational but it can also be funny and pointless, it just depends whose tweets you are reading about or what topic you are reading about.
In my news writing class we have to write news stories all the time and our teacher gives us advice on how to get better at writing our leads. One of the tips she gave us was to pretend like the lead of our article was a tweet on Twitter. She said to pretend we only had 140 characters to get our point across and we had to fit the most important fact of the article in those limited amount of characters. This really helped me because it made me condense what I was saying and really focus in on what my article was about.
I think I would have to agree with the article I read. Twitter can be educational. I'm not sure if it can make you smarter but if you are using Twitter the right way it can definitely make you more aware of current events and even make you a better writer if you use my news writing teacher's tip!
I agree.
ReplyDeleteI think Facebook is definitely more of a social site, whereas Twitter can be educational/up to date on news and current events.
Just scrolling through Twitter, one can learn a lot about what's going on in the world (versus what's going on in people's personal lives).
However, all that aside, I still prefer Facebook (:
I second that. I feel Twitter can be more useful when it comes to information that matters. Facebook is great and all because it allows more detail to be put into posts and other various features, but since Twitter only allows 140 characters that forces you to post only necessary information.
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