Twitter is OK because it takes 2 secs to post an update and whatever.

I still get “pressed” or more like harassed actually to get on facebook multiple times per day so that people can spam me, find out more about me and whatever… No thanks!

I go online to do biz, nothing more, nothing less.

Gotta draw the line with all this BS indeed.

Even Stephen Douglas has sent me facebook requests to become buddies… LOL

All this social networking stuff kills productivity big time because it is easy to get distracted and it can go on forever… I mean, who is to stop you?

Cheers,

Mike

At 55 I’m not too old, but I have also faced this dilemma. I try to use Facebook more for personal stuff and a mix of family and friends. I’m playing with twitter for strictly business-related tweets in relation to one domain I’m developing, and I have a personal twitter account also.

Both seem to be burning so bright that they just might have a short future. I see this social networking as a fad rather than a trend. A fad ends. A trend is the beginning of something big.

Of course I could be wrong but sounds like these social networks are being abused and once they are tainted they will be tainted forever.

I missed out on MySpace.com which was so 2008.

All seem to be marketing for marketing’s sake which is fine but there will be some other “next big thing”.

I was more referring to seeing business-things in my Facebook feed, but I’ve found a way to hide posts from people who do it. Also, there are sometimes photos that people post that are intended for close friends rather than business associates.