The first page I explored was Facebook. First impressions go as far as cluttered. My timeline was displaying different wall posts from all my friends, a menu dropped down to the left, trending topics and suggested popups/ads to the right. Scrolling through the timeline of wall posts, the posts were out of order. There was a link posted three hours before followed by a post published 20 minutes prior. However, the overall impression of facebook was a place to express words, emojis, birthdays and more. It exceeds expectations of capabilities within the site. It can connect you with people all over the world discussing the same thing.
When visiting twitter it gave me a fast pace feeling. The tweets, only allowing 140 characters challenges users to condense what they mean. Not necessarily do people even need the 140 characters to express how they feel. Twitter has a similar design to facebook, in the way the mainstream of posts are front and centered. A menu to the right and suggestions all around. The ads are built into the mainstream, where you see your "followers" retweet a post. I am impressed in the way that twitter was one of the first media outlets to allow you to reshare a fellow users post, to add to their own domain.
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