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 * 1) 4)There are several advantages for using Twitter or Facebook. First of all Facebook is using Twitter to get things out faster. There are also Business advantages. To be exact there are eleven, 1 is Branding- using facebook to get people aware of a certain brand. The second on is Customer Engagement- it helps you communicate with possible customers. The third is Drive Web traffic- facebook can act as a portal point. The fourth is Reputation Mangement- it can help you see what people think about and your brand. Using Twitter and or facebook can help you in almost every place in the world.


 * 1) 5) Some drawbacks of using twitter or facebook is that jobs that you apply for can look up your facebook or twitter page to see what you have done and what you are like, and if you have bad things on your page they will not hire you. Another drawback of using these sites are that if you are like disabled and you get monthly checks because of it, your insurance or company that you worked for can check to see what your page says and if they don't like it they can sue you.

​ 1. Twitter was created March 2006. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, but created July 2006.
 * 1) 6)The way users of these two sites can control what other users see about them is that if you don't put up nothing personal about youself on the websites, and if you do make your profile private and only people who you are friends with are allowed to see your page.

2. Jack Dorsey is credited for creating Twitter. Mark Zuckerberg is credited for creating Facebook.

3. Twitter helps you keep in touch with friends, update your status, get updated on the latest news and events. It could be used for work related activities for adults. You also can follow your favorite celebrity and get and read their updates. Facebook can be used for business networking. It also can help people keep in touch with their friends, share photos, and blogs. It also allows you to find old friends from grade school that you haven't talked to in years.

 7) Some conterversy has surrounded Facebook espiacially over the past couple of months. According to a recent article, Facebook added the "Newsfeed" and "Mini Feed" feature which allows facebook users to see what ALL of their friends are up to on the website and the latter tells you what ONE specific person is up to. People protested this and facebook responded quickly by taking them off, the most obvious reason for this is that people said this invaded their privacy. Twitter has been able to escaped any sort of huge conterversy but probably won't for long.

8) Facebook has recently been in the news becuase some hospitals around the country have utilized Facebook and Twitter to gives patients feedback and and general health information that affects them such as the availibilty of seasonal flu vaccianes. Though relying more on Twitter the ten hospitals in Oklahoma that are using this program could quickly spread throughout the medical world.

9) The original purpose of Facebook is so that people can connect with anyone anywhere and to be able to find long lost friends. This typically why Facebook is geared toward a n older audience of college students and adults. Twitter's original purpose is to bring "micro blogging" to the world stage. Twitter is all about giving information, in 160 characters or less, about what's actually going on right then and there. and you can choose to "follow" people if you are interested in what they are doing.

10) Really most high schools don't condone the use of Facebook or Twitter within the schools. Though now Facebook is becoming increasingly popular with high schoolers and Twitter is not to far behind. Colleges are using Facebook to help students keep track of assingments and to keep in touch with friends. Twitter and Facebook are being used by college recruiters to help with the admisions process. With more people turning to blogging and other forms of social media it's no surprise Twitter and Facebook are gaining more ground in people's lives.