Twittering Who You Really Are?

There are many articles out there on social networking platforms - how to use one to promote your business, how to use it to get a job, or simply how to get random people to 'follow' you. There are many ways to skin this cat, but I have found one interesting blog comparing Twitter to the id and Facebook to the ego.

Here is a teaser... from a blog called "Information Arbitrage."

Twitter is our id, Facebook is our Ego
I was speaking with my good friend Howard Lindzon, my partner in several Twitter-related investments, about the differences in the way people communicate on Twitter and Facebook. Howard's sense is that everybody lies on Facebook; that people represent a kind of "false self," so that it is hard to really know what a person is like from their Facebook profile. He feels differently about Twitter, however, holding the belief that people's tweets are a much closer representation of their true self than Facebook. So that someone who is a jerk on Twitter is likely a jerk in real life, and someone who is thoughtful and careful in their tweets is also like that offline. After considering Howard's theory, I am convinced that he is right. Then it hit me. There is a framework for conceptualizing the differences in peoples' communication between these two media: Freud's structural model of the psyche. In short, Twitter is the id, while Facebook is the ego.

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