The Social

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1757829]

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[innerbrat]

Twitter and IM.

Or rather, it depends on the friend and the circle of friends to which that friend belongs.

[andrewducker]

Hence me saying "more" and "more likely" - because it seemed unlikely that someone would get exactly the same number of messages over both FB and Email.

[innerbrat]

So by 'more' you mean 'more messages' or 'more people'? Because the two people I socially converse with most over these two media are over email. But I talk to more people through Facebook.

[andrewducker]

Now that's _definitely_ a SMCWIWEIC

[innerbrat]

What?

[andrewducker]

Something More Complicated Which I Will Explain In Comments

:->

Edit: As in, it falls outside of the boundaries of the question, because the question is too simple to cope with it.

[innerbrat]

It gets even more complicated - with the person I talk to most of all - not just the method but also the email depends on context.

If I want to talk to him super privately - DM over Twitter.
If I want to talk to just him and it's not super private - @ on twiter.
If I want to talk to him and a certain friend who doesn't have twitter who we know online - ib @ gmail
If I want to talk to him and other friends we know IRL - DL @ gmail.

So yes. Complimicated.

[andrewducker]

I suspect that not having access to Twitter or Facebook at work makes a difference to me here.

(Well, I have access on my phone, but that's significantly more faffy than using the PC)

[innerbrat]

Probably.

It shouldn't matter with facebook, now you can reply to private messages and wall posts directly through email, though.

[andrewducker]

Not tried to do that. I probably should.

I'd have to have it send the emails to both work and home though, as I can't get outside email when in work.

Edit: Not that I get many personal messages from FB. I get the vast majority of my messages over email.

[innerbrat]

I cannot imagine I'd be having any social communication at work if I couldn't receive personal emails or use social networking.

[andrewducker]

I can receive personal emails - I just can't access third-party email services so that they can monitor all emails and make sure I'm not sending data out to people I shouldn't be (i.e. check for spreadsheets and the like).

And I can use LJ, for some reason (although not the Friends page).

[hano.livejournal.com]

Neither - mostly I use Twitter

[andrewducker]

You never send emails or facebook messages?

What happens if you're sending a photo to a friend? Twitpic and DM?

[hano.livejournal.com]

depends who I'm talking to. The majority of the time I'd use Twitter for stuff like that, but do use Facebook for those who don't have any other internet presence. Email tends to be for much longer stuff - I never use Facebook for messages.

[naath.livejournal.com]

LJ :-p

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Me too! :D

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Me too (I don't FB)

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

Totally depends on the other person.

[andrewducker]

Of course.

But do more of the other people tend to use email or FB?

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

I really don't think I can answer this. Different at different times. Different content, so doesn't feel like I'm comparing similar things. Different volume measures too.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

And the content.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I'm in the minority of people who use Facebook as their public profile, so almost everyone I know is on Facebook. The only people who regularly email me are my parents and older folk I work with at my church.

It may also have to do with the fact that I am of the generation that got Facebook in college when it was still college exclusive.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I would always email people rather than Facebook them if I have their email addresses, but I do all my social convening via Facebook.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Yes, for organising groups of defined people I email, but for organising "everybody I know let's all go to this thing!" I...well, actually, I post to LJ first, and then remember to make a Facebook invite page a few days later.

[andrewducker]

Yes - Facebook events are fantastic. One of the few things I love about it.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, Events are great.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

As I don't use Facebook, this one's easy for me to answer.

-- Steve'd be hard pressed to decide if he did more social messaging over email or LJ, though.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[x] Apart from the people who only seem to exist in FB rather than the Greater Internet.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... But then I am of the generation (40-summat) that had 7-bit text and learned to express themselves in the long form because that's how it works.

[andrewducker]

This is why LJ is good :->

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Quite. I regularly steam off the end of a FB comment block mid-ramble. Tiresome blasted UI.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Yes. That bemuses me. I have a few friends to whom it has never occured that email is a method of keeping in touch with people, and respond to "which email address is best for you" with "facebook, duh".

I think these people have a permanent facebook tab open and watch everything that happens on it. Which is precisely what I do with my gmail. FB I largely ignore, though I do read/like/comment on friend's status updates via tweetdeck.

[kmusser]

Only time I'll use messages on FB are for people that I don't have any other means of contacting and for event coordination - otherwise it's IM or E-mail, or even LJ-messages I use more than FB.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Q2: depends on which medium that person tends to use most and prefers and checks most often.

[andrewducker]

I'm not asking about individuals. I'm asking about your general experience.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Email, but really I prefer to do this by phone.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

Weird. I was definitely expecting more people to say Facebook.

While I like emailing people, a lot of the people I need to contact at short notice seem to check their Facebooks more than their emails.

For group emails/planning things I'd definitely default to email, but if I (to take an example from today) wanted to check if I'd left a CD case in a friend's car I'd probably drop them a FB message/note on their wall before thinking to email.

Hmm.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

It might be interesting to ask something like this in 18 months.
I have a new benchmark in that MySpace lost 94% of its market cap in 6 years . . .

[camies.livejournal.com]

Most of my social communication is by phone. There are a lot of people who I wish did use email but they don't seem to although they do have email addresses.

[mair_in_grenderich]

Well if I had an email address and a facebook address for someone, then yes, email, but if they didn't reply to the email then I'd try facebook. I'd probably post on their wall if they had one rather than use fb messages.

Facebook's messaging system is dire in my opinion though and it only works at all because people receive the messages in their email inbox...

[mair_in_grenderich]

also, im+irc where I have a permanent presence so can check in and read messages people have left for me...

[drjon.livejournal.com]

All my FB comes through email. Without email notifications, I'd seldom check FB fr messages.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Mostly the same answer as innerbrat. I tend not to initiate contact very much. When I do, if it's private or complicated, email or Twitter DMs. If it's not, Twitter. If it's with minnesattva, IM. If it's with a very small number of people I don't talk to very much but who have no other online presence, Facebook.

As for being contacted, Twitter totally overwhelms all other forms in terms of incoming messages. Facebook and email together make up about 20% of social contacts, roughly evenly split.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

1) Livejournal. Through comments that arrive by way of email, admittedly.
2) Depends entirely on the nature of the message,I'm afraid.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Facebook is mostly fake social communication for me.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

As in, when I click "like" on something someone says, a lot of the time it's really just politeness or to give the impression I care, not because there's actually any desire to properly communicate. It's the equivalent of nodding and saying "uh-huh" in a face-to-face conversation when actually you're thinking what you'll say next, or checking out their best friend.