First of all, great post. It is really ridiculous how many social media websites are today. Too many and most of them are crap or just not popular to worth the effort.

But nobody wants to miss out any potential readers, so many are doing this, and sometimes it takes more time to submit a post to all social media websites than actually write a post.

For people who are still addicted to submit to everything should try out http://shareaholic.com/ or for more services http://www.socialmarker.com/?link=about%3Ablank&a… which are great time saver.

Random thinker, the facebook thing is an interesting concpet – whether to use it for personal networking or social uses. Hmm…next post may be?

mark, you deserve an applause for speaking your mind out. Many don;t you know.

Swiftmed, you’re somewhat like me

The rest i leave.

I think that we have gone social media mad on the web. If one tried to keep up with every new trend that came along, we wouldn’t have time to get any real work done (at least I wouldn’t).

I’m usually a late comer to technology. Eg, I got a cellphone a full two years after most of my friends had one — and then it was a gift, not something I went out and bought for myself.

As for social media, I use Digg regularly. I’m still kicking my own butt for this one, but hey, it’s a button I put up so I’m gonna use it darn it!

In the last couple of months, I’ve started to use StumbleUpon and Propeller. A few days ago, I signed up with Delicious. But, you know what — I’m stopping there.

I used to put up a blog post and that was it. Now between stumbling it, digging it and propellering it, a simple 20-minute blog post now takes 30-45 minutes.

Oh yea, I also use Technorati and have a Squidoo lens.

While I do believe everyone should incorporate social media into their marketing, it should be a conscious plan, eg, choose a few that work well for you and move on. Don’t spend time jumping on every new bandwagon that comes out.

Otherwise, you’ll never have time for real paid work.

Yuwanda

I believe I get more visitors and new subscribers easier this way because I try to keep on topic when commenting.

I still do a bit of social bookmarking and media but the more blogs I start the harder it is to keep that up so I do feel commenting on other blogs and forums develop longer lasting relationships.

I’ve reserved Facebook for my personal life and haven’t mixed it with my blogging efforts yet, however I might in the future. I have signed up for 3 or 4 more and after returning once or twice and not seeing any potential in them, I have just abandoned them. Between writing, learning from other bloggers and life, I’m not sure when people find the time to be active on more than a few social media networks.