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Do you act differently on Twitter and Facebook?

I hardly use Facebook these days. I hang out more on Twitter. Even though Facebook is my closed network of people I know, I feel more comfortable to post updates on Twitter and not think about what people will think. Maybe I am a bit conscious of the people in my Facebook network - mostly close friends, some family and acquaintances. Or maybe this is the way the services have branded themselves - Twitter is all about status updates and Facebook is not.

It is as if people who are following me on Twitter find my updates interesting and have given me permission to update them with anything, even if it is sitting in a coffee shop doing nothing. My Facebook network might think this as ridiculous.

Do you see a clear distinction between your social networks?

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Facebook and the get-rich-quick theory

Recently, I have been hearing a lot of conversions around get-rich-quick schemes. Let's build another Facebook type of a site so we can be valued at X billion dollars and make a ton of money blah blah.

Wrong wrong wrong! Skewed thinking.

Money was not the criteria when Facebook started. Money is a by-product of something larger than life that they were attempting to conquer. They stuck to what they believed in and grew the service to what it is now. Brilliant!

You gotto believe in your idea, nurture it each day and see it grow. Money, success, fame and whatever else you call it will follow...you have to survive the journey to get to the end.

There are no get-rich-quick schemes if you play it right.

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