Is twitter just a means of abusing people and being rude?

[Beth]

I personally think that twitter is one of the better social networking sites. You can't let a few silly, mis-judging people convince you otherwise. Every social networking site has these users, often refered to as trolls, who make offensive comments to others and I don't expect it will ever be stopped. Society has a right to their own opinions, and there has always been the few that make abusive comments to undermine others, social networking has just given them an easiero way of doing it.

I personally have both a facebook and twitter account. My Facebook account is used to keep in contact with people that I personally know and any abuse ob there is usually just silly nonsense when friends fall out. There are many security measures to stop cyber abuse, and you can easily 'defriend' anyone who bothers you.
My twitter account however, I use to talk to people who have the same interests as me who i may not know, and you can keep yourself updated with the latest news posted by celebrities if they also have a twitter account and you 'follow' it

'Haters gonna hate.'