Social Media Platform Comparisons
Comments debate the fundamental differences in use cases, user dynamics, and social graphs between platforms like Facebook (friends and real-life connections), Twitter/Reddit (strangers, interests, and shitposting).
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FB recommends and suggests content much like youtube except much more social. Twitter is closer to reddit than FB.
twitter is mostly anonymous users shitposting and dunking on each other.facebook is all your friends' racist friends yelling at you, interspersed with bizarre ads for products you'll never buy and sponsored links to phony news sites. it's a completely different dynamic and it's much more insidious.
Twitter and Reddit are messageboards. Like Hacker News. Every time they do something controversial, someone thinks Usenet needs to be reincarnated.Trying to monetize that at scale is hardddd.Facebook has got groups, yes. But they have instagram. Messenger. Whatsapp. They have my friends and family. They have my photos going back 10 years. Facebook is personal to many people.I don't see Twitter and Facebook being interchangeable.
It's like compare Facebook and Twitter. Surely you can try compare them, but better just use whatever you like to use.
What's the point of Facebook? Twitter?
I don't understand moving from Facebook to Twitter (or vice versa) - they're completely different use cases.
Reddit and Facebook are completely different concepts. The former is a forum, the latter tries to digitize real-life friendships. The difference in MAUs might also be a hint, everything is easier at smaller scale.
How is it supposed to be different from Twitter, Facebook or ...?
For you, what is a main difference between social networks as facebook and HN?
They're completely different things; Reddit is strangers, Facebook is people you know.