Recently someone asked me “how do YOU use Twitter?”  Do you sputter out whatever comes to mind?  Do you tell everyone where you are?  Do you try to be funny?

Honestly.  My favorite flavor of tweet to share is links and images.  A photo that might make someone say OoOo where’s that at.  Or a link to a post that interests me.

I share things that interest me [as I'm sure most do] and I guess that’s the key to it all.  If people stick around for the mundane things I post it’s probably because they’re interested in those mundane things as well.

What I like about this, is the natural filtering of followers that starts to happen.  The people who stick around are those that are interested in the same things you are.  So before you know it all you’ve really done is formed a nice little news stream of information that matters most to you.  To you, this is signal … not noise.

I guess you could say I use Twitter to broadcast so that I can get a following fully optimized to my interests.  My own personalized feed of people who like the things I like.  That’s something worth celebrating.

Facebook is somewhat the same, but I tend to use it more for activities.  Posting an entire album of photos, checking in to places, or sharing music.  With Facebook’s new Timeline feature it’s more of me documenting history than anything else.  When you’re able to scroll back, weeks, months, and years at a time you’re giving a wonderful perspective that’s next to impossible to find anywhere else.

Facebook is my book of memories and it paints a beautiful picture of where I’ve been and where I’m going.

When it’s all said and done I broadcast to get closer to those things that I care about.  It turns into more of a funnel that flows with things that interest me and people I care about the most.