Do you remember how you were first introduced to social networking?
I do.
I joined MySpace when it first became popular (I think it was 2004). I loved that I could reconnect with friends from high school and college, no matter where they were living. Plus you could change the colors and backgrounds and add graphics and music to your profile. (By the way, have you seen it lately? WOW! It looks different.)
When I first heard about Facebook in 2005 from some long-time friends who were still in college, I was too old and too far out of college to join, so I had to patiently wait until Facebook was opened up to the masses. Even though I did join Facebook about a year after it finally opened to us older/non-collegiate folk, I remained loyal to my trusty MySpace because it was familiar and had lots of options for customization that Facebook didn’t offer. Finally in late 2007, I decided to bite the bullet and join Facebook. In all honesty, it took me quite a while to ditch MySpace and become a full-on Facebooker.
Then in mid 2008, I joined Twitter to see what all the fuss was about… and was immediately hooked. For me, Facebook has always been all about connecting with people already know, but Twitter in entirely different. I loved being able to engage with people I didn’t know without having the concern of allowing them in to my personal life.
A MarCom Brainstorm 