Social media in the last two years has basically gone viral. There are many publicly available social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Facebook is the second largest social networking site on the web and Twitter is gaining ground and threatens to become the number one social networking site. Facebook and Twitter are two social media sites that seem to have many similarities. The major problem with these two social networks is that Twitter has a controlled level of social networking. With Facebook, you're not allowed to interact one-way, which means that if I feel the need to follow someone's posts, they have to accept my friend request before I can see what they're posting. he publishes. Some major differences between Facebook and Twitter are as follows: Facebook was started by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates in February 2006. Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched on July 5, 2006, with the help of his friends. Facebook is used by members for various purposes. The main reason Facebook is used is so that people who want to stay in touch with their friends can do so, and people who want to reconnect with people they once knew can do so as well. In addition to having a personal profile, Facebook allows you to post messages on other people's walls, upload photos and videos, share links, write long notes, send private messages to friends, etc. Twitter only allows users to post messages of 140 characters, or tweets. Twitter allows you to follow other users' posts on their Twitter feed. Twitter is mainly used to communicate with other people with similar interests, whether you know each other or not. Users can...... middle of paper ...... except on Twitter, all you have to do to mention another user is put the "@" sign before the username of the 'user. Facebook users can comment on other users' status or photos and on Twitter you can reply to tweets posted by other users. That said, I think Twitter is more superior than Facebook because I feel like more people are. more involved in Twitter than in Facebook. Sometimes I think Facebook is becoming a social networking site for adults because I hardly see teenagers there anymore unless they're posting pictures. I think Twitter is more suitable for us teenagers and students because you can express your opinion and say whatever you want and no one really cares. I almost never see adults on Twitter. I learned a lot while writing this article. I never imagined that Twitter and Facebook had so much in common.