It's very easy to be friends with someone on Facebook but not follow them. In the upper right of every post is a menu that lets you unfollow them. At least to

It's very easy to be friends with someone on Facebook but not follow them. In the upper right of every post is a menu that lets you unfollow them. At least today, the concept of "friend" is more about access permissions than "following" But ultimately Twitter vs. Facebook is a very dull argument. Yes, the design of the platform makes a difference, but ultimately any individual's experience is going to be dominated by the people they interact with. Just because a person tries platform X and doesn't like it doesn't mean that everyone else is going to have the same experience. But neither of these would be what they are as paid services. Their primary value depends on the vast number of users and that just doesn't happen with paid services.