Do I know you?

When someone sends a friend request on Facebook, it's generally because they know the person. Now every once and a while, some weirdos add people they don't know, or get confused.

In a case where someone requests to be your Facebook friend, and you don't know who they are, you either completely ignore it or you send them a message saying  "Do I know you?, How do I know you?, Who are you?"

But on Twitter the case is quite the opposite. You want people to follow you who you don't know. It's like, the more followers the better. Though some people feel that way about Facebook and add every Jo Blow who comes around, the general consensus is that Facebook is for friends, family and your private life and Twitter is for networking with people with common interests, and to get as many unique followers as possible so that your message will be far spread.

Though the goal on Twitter is to have more followers than you do friends on Facebook, it isn't necessarily the easiest one to reach. Your tweets have to be interesting to the people you follow and if they're not, they will unfollow you. Also if you write something that offends them or they don't agree with, unfollow. The challenge of Twitter is that there are so many people with different interests on it tweeting that it's hard to sell yourself.

The things you say on Twitter vs. Facebook aren't always, but should probably differ. I view Facebook as my personal page, for only people I want to see to see. I set the privacy settings so ONLY friends can see, nobody else. Twitter is out there for the world to see, you can't have anything to hide.

My advice, if you want to stay private, stick to Facebook. If you want to unleash your thoughts on the world, cross over to the Tweet side.