Websites and Rhetorical Choices

Most people these days spend a lot of time on the internet, especially college students. Whether they are on blackboard or webassign doing homework, on twitter or Facebook stalking someone they like or dislike, or watching netflix in the little free time they have, the internet is a must have in 2014. For me, then websites i visit most frequently are twitter and Facebook. They are structured very similarly, you can add friends or follow people. You can post pictures and videos. You can post statuses and tweets. Both are good ways to get your words or thoughts out there to many people. This can be a good and bad thing, because you have to make sure what you are saying won't get you in trouble. These websites have many purposes. Twitter to me, is a place where people can be funny and post random things that would be helpful to other people. Facebook used to be that way, but now i use it mainly to post. You can also create groups on Facebook, which is what my sorority pictures from college that my parents and family can see so they know that i am doing well uses to communicate, which is very helpful. Both websites are social networking but have slightly different purposes. Both companies are pretty credible because there are millions of users on each website. You can definitely tell that they are somewhat competing, because they have similar features. You can “like” a status or picture on facebook, and on twitter you can “retweet” or “Favorite” someone’s tweet. Some people actually like what you have to post, other people use it as a form of flirting. I consider facebook to be more of a website for older more professional people, and twitter to be more for high school and college students. This may be because facebook has been around longer than twitter has, and times have changed. With facebook you can essentially DO more things instead of fitting one small post into 140 words. But with twitter you are least likely to post something bad by mistake because you have less room to. Both websites make good and bad rhetorical choices, but the good ones always overpower the bad because both websites are very popular and frequently used.