If you want to play like around a campfire or around home or whatever, take up acoustic. If you want to play in a band or something, learn bass. So many people play electric or acoustic now that bass players are somewhat hard to find.
oopsy my last answer was way off. I did not get the question at forst. In my opinion a bass guitar is much better than an acoustic. But that is because I have had more fun on a bass.
An acoustic bass was made in the 1950's, produced by Kay's of Chicage, but did not go into large scale production until the realease of Ernie Ball's Acoustic bass in the 60's. Since then more and...