subject: Travel Around the World With Facebook and Twitter [print this page] Travel Around the World With Facebook and Twitter
Facebook and Twitter are a great way to connect with other people who share your interests. But did you realize that they can also be a powerful tool for travelers? Here are 5 ways that Facebook and Twitter can make traveling around the world easier, cheaper and more fun.
Find Things to Do
When it comes to planning what you'll do on your trip, a guidebook is a great place to start. But you can often get more personalized, appealing recommendations from people who either live in the place you're visiting or who have been there recently. Twitter and Facebook provide an easy and effective way to ask the people in your social graph for suggestions.
Find Places to Stay
Likewise, Twitter and Facebook are great for finding recommendations for places to stay. You know the drill: some places look great on the website but kind of shabby in person. Review sites are sometimes helpful but can be populated with fake reviews. Facebook and Twitter let you tap into your network to get recommendations from people you know are real.
Get Customer Service
Flight canceled? Hotel issues? Many companies now have a presence on Facebook and Twitter. Contacting them there for customer service can sometimes help you escape hour-long hold times and phone trees to immediately get in touch with a person who can help.
Get Discounts on Travel
Using Twitter and Facebook can also help you save money on your trip. Airlines, hotels and other travel companies will often tweet about great deals, sometimes advertising them exclusively on Twitter. For example, the @JetBlueCheeps Twitter account tweets nothing but deals on JetBlue flights. Other good accounts to follow include @traveldeals, @airfarewatchdog, @travelbargains and @UnitedAirlines.
Share Your Journey
Sending postcards is so 1999. Keeping your family and friends updated on your travels via social media is the way to go just be careful to restrict updates solely to your friends, since broadcasting the fact that you'll be out of town for a week to the entire universe is rarely a good idea.
One thing social media can't help with? Getting a passport. The process takes about 6 weeks if you apply for standard processing and about 3 weeks for expedited service. The only way to get it any faster is to make an appointment to apply at a regional passport agency office or use a private passport expediter like RushMyPassport.
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