Lab 2

Bill Simmons and Grantland.

As we have discussed in class, Facebook and Twitter are two different social media creatures. Facebook is more for private social media interaction between my friends and family. Yes, there are myriad pages for me to "like" so that my wall can become cluttered, but for the most part I try to keep it personal.

I like Grantland and Bill Simmons on facebook, and it works for me because these pages largely update me with new articles from each source. I'm on ESPN.com every day, but I sometimes forget to scroll down to see whats up with Grantland. I have found myself reading a majority of Grantland and BS articles through facebook on my iPhone; rarely do I go to the site directly.

Because of that personal interaction/feel from facebook, there is very little, if any, interaction from BS and whomever runs the Grantland Facebook page. They just update the posts, but from what I can tell, don't really respond to users posts.

Twitter, on the other hand, is so rapid-fire and easy that it makes interaction simple. BS updates his twitter feed often, and actually interacts with users posts quite a bit. The same goes for all of the Grantland editors and writers, many of whom have twitter feeds.

For a medium such as Twitter, I think there isn't enough space to write profound, articulate statements, so nothing can be classified as noise. Anything that Grantland-related writers post amuse me in some way, so I think it all works. Rarely, if ever, do the writers post nonsensical fluff--unless its a link to some other site.