The time it takes to network socially…
In a time where tools like Facebook, Twitter and others seem only to benefit content creators such as myself, every once in a while I wonder if maintaining these channels of connecting with the community is a lot more work, and therefore time, than I?d like to admit.
Certainly we are all much more connected through something like Twitter than we would have been otherwise. It?s quick, painless, and easily lets me direct people to stuff they might be interested in, which they can get to on browsers, applications, phones, etc. Easy, right? Maybe.
I have found that in the last couple of months, I was Twittering things to the point that other things, which I could twitter about later, were not getting done as fast. Add to that all the checking for PM?s, replies, and the posts of those I follow, I started to notice net accumulations of time being burned away slowly enough that the effect was always obvious to me.
What did I do about it? Well, I twitter less…as many of you have noticed. Not a LOT less, but a bit less…enough for me to feel a little more balanced with it all. Funny enough, I now seem to have time to get a Facebook update in here or there, or to update this blog with some uninteresting tripe. Or a million other micro-web things that I usually find I am out of time for.
Thoughts on all this? Bound to be some good opinions out there regarding social networking overload.