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Make Life Harder and More Stressful Five Simple Steps using Social Media

These simple steps were born from real life experience and are guaranteed to make you waste time, lose money and hate your life. If you are new to social media and social networking this will undoubtedly save you several headaches.

Step #1 Sign-Up For Every Social Network You Hear About

Alternative: Find an expert you trust and who understands your values, and sign-up for whatever they tell you to.

Step #2 Setup Your Preferences to Receive an Email Every Time Anything Happens

Alternative: Shut off ALL email notifications from social networks.

Step #3 Respond to Every Message on Every Social Network

Alternative: Don’t feel like you have to respond. Be conservative about how much of the “online conversation” you are joining. A lot of it is useless banter.

Step #4 Try Commenting on Every Blog Post You Read When You Read it

Alternative: Try bookmarking blog posts you would like to comment on using De.lico.us and tag them with “comment”. Return at a later time when all you want to do is comment on blogs.

Step #5 Set your homepage to Netvibes or iGoogle or a News Page

Alternative: Don’t be distracted. Set your homepage to a blank screen. It will help you be focused.

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Great advice. I recently discovered Twitter. Twitter can be a great tool to expand your network and knowledge, but it can also be a huge wasted of time. It’s good set set boundaries and goals for your use of social networks. (BTW, I found this website via Twitter).

1 Mike Campbell June 21, 2008 6:47 pm

Nice post Aaron. I think #4 should be adopted selectively. Scoring an early comment on posts that adds to the conversation and really adds value to readers or provokes questions seems to be better from a pure traffic perspective.

Alternatively, selectively deciding what to comment on does allow your thoughts to incubate and allows you to focus on your strengths and compose really amazing responses.

Great new design. Very nice.

2 Nathan Ketsdeve August 11, 2008 6:24 pm

Nice tips. I have limited my social networking to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and my blog airynothings.com

I was trying to keep up with WAY too much noise.

I am originally from Louisville (Go Cards) and found your blog through a mutual aquaintance.

Nice job!!

3 Glad Doggett October 07, 2008 11:02 am

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