10 Reasons Why Twitter is Kicking FaceBook's Ass

1) FaceBook friends are the friends you had in high school. Twitter friends are people you wish were your friends in high school. (Read this on Twitter and it resonated.)

2) Tweeters are more sophisticated and savvy. There are at least 80%* fewer posts about Chuck E. Cheese on Twitter compared to FaceBook. (*This isn't an actual fact - but there's a lot less of that type of posting.)

3) Twitter forces people to be succinct.

4) Tweeting sounds more fun than FaceBooking which now sounds antiquated. Nobody does anything with books anymore. I read "books" using the Kindle app on my iPhone.

5) Twitter does not have the security issues FB has.

6) When everyone including your mother can top 100 FB friends it doesn't matter how many you have. As a matter of fact, I'd bet that it's now cooler to have fewer FB friends than other people. It would say to your personal world: I am organizing my life and prioritizing my relationships and you either make the cut or you do not. Twitter, on the other hand is a reflection of how the "actual world" sees you. Not people who report to you, birthed you, or married you and have to live with you, thus "liking" your pithy comments and goofy vacation pictures. A lot of friends on Twitter = Coolness (actual). A lot of friends on FB = ?

7) Twitter expands your world much faster and wider. I have a follower in Italy. We DM and @reply all the time. He's awesome. @maxguzzo! We "met" through a fellow tweeter @DanieleCarrol that I "met" through an old friend from Second City @DavidAugust (he's an old-fashioned "connector").

8) Twitter has its own language - it feels like a special world when you're tweeting. A connected, cool, hip world. FB feels like a class reunion - awesome at first and then over time, you remember why...you moved away, broke up, quit, etc.

9) Those annoying Big Brother ads on the right side of the page that have you thinking the FaceBook marketing department is actually watching us all via portals in our webcams and we can't stop them.

10) Deals from Twitter are real and awesome and FB deals may be real, but feel creepy and big brothery and I've actually never used any of them.