Facebook can be seen as your online personal ID. On facebook people enter their personal information such as hometown, birthplace, marriage status, and significant life event such as high school graduation. In my opinion, facebook is a platform to introduce ourselves to the others. And it is also a very good platform to build up connections, so for me, facebook is a public social networking in most cases, you can also make it to be private account but that would make the experience less fun. Twitter is more of a social networking that evolves the entire population, trending topic on twitter draws everyone's attention and people retweet, make their comments, discuss with the rest of the population. Therefore, twitter can be very public but also require less personal information. The rest two social networking I want to talk about are WeChat and Weibo, these two are the current biggest two Chinese social networking. And also the two I use most frequently. WeChat is similar to Facebook, because most of the Facebook users interact only with their own social group. Wechat is more enclosed than Facebook even in such perspective, because no one outside of your social group would be able to see your interaction. For example, A is friend with B but not C, someday B post a picture and both A and C commented, and A and C would never be able to see each others' words. And wechat require not much personal information to be entered, but once user opens the portable payer function, authentic personal information is required. Weibo is very similar with twitter, trending topics with many users commenting on it and it could be also used as a search engine because it contains a lot of information.
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