Seperating Facebook and Twitter

FI’m toying around with a few plugins for my WordPress installation here on Le Blog that could help me notify Facebook each time I post a blog entry. One of them being Wordbook, and this blog post itself is my test run to see how it functions.

You see, previously I’ve had a set-up whereby my Facebook account has been linked to Twitter, and my WordPress installation complete with necessary plugin (which varies at the moment!) posts my blog post title and link to Twitter, meaning it in turn appears on Facebook. The problem here is that I’m dependent on having that link between Twitter and Facebook -meaning all my Tweets appear in my Facebook feed- and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want my Twitter and Facebook activity to be separate.

Why? You may be thinking. Well, frankly I like having two different channels to the rest of the world/interwebs, but I’m also not keen on having my Facebook feed flooded with updates; something I seem to be managing more and more as time progresses.

I like to think of Facebook as the place where I can have banter, post photos, keep up with other people’s lives and generally do the whole social networking thing with people that, for the most part I see on a regular basis.

With Twitter, it feels geekier, and therefore I’m more of a geek in the content I post. Not that I’m saying a) Twitter is purely for my brain’s geek output or b) I’m afraid of being a geek on Facebook, it’s just that I like keeping the two phenomenon’s away from one another as it is tidier that way.

A final point is also that with the limited amount of interaction between you and those you are following, or are following you, you can have a simple line of communication with people that you have never and will probably never meet. For example, you can have a bit of banter with the guys at Empire Magazine via Twitter, but you don’t have to worry that they’ll see what state you crawled in at last night, or know when you’ve broken up with your estranged ex-wife.

That is the price of interacting with someone on Facebook, and in a way, it is a benefit of using Twitter that I’m loving right now.