So I finally caved in, I joined Twitter.

I’ve been talking myself out of joining it, but it seems like Pownce has died, and although I started posting more on Pownce, there just doesn’t seem to be anything going on over there.

Maybe I’m following the wrong people, maybe I don’t have the right people following me. Who knows.

I’ve had kind of a posting spree lately, and not only have I been posting regularly on both Port16 and Two Guys Tech, but I’ve started to post more often on Pownce as well. So yesterday I figured, what the heck, the more the merrier.

I’m not going to re-post, at least not at this point in time. Pownce messages will not appear on Twitter and vice versa.

If you want to include me in the party, here’s my twitter page, and here’s my pownce page. If there’s anyone you follow, and would like to suggest them to me, let me know.

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I’ve had a little change in philosophy lately when it comes to pownce.

A long time ago, possibly even months, I decided that I’m kind of tired of getting all of these messages about things I don’t care about. I mean, come on, I don’t care about what you had for breakfast.

Ok, let’s be a little more specific, I don’t care what you have for breakfast on a daily basis, unless it’s something really cool or strange. I mean really, if you post and say “strangest thing happened to me today, I had an iguana breakfast burrito”, then I would be pretty interested.

Not only in how it tasted, but where exactly one might obtain a iguana breakfast burrito.

Man. I sure love breakfast burritos.

I better stay focused. What was I talking about? Oh yea, that’s right.

Assuming that you didn’t have an especially strange or interesting breakfast, I probably don’t care.

I think it is safe to assume that I especially don’t want to know what you had for breakfast, after you posted “good morning” to all of your friends. So, after suffering from information apathy, I turned off my message notifications.

The other day, a friend sent me a private message. Luckily, I still had the notifications turned on for personal messages. The thought struck me that I almost missed that, and right now, my friends could be posting something really cool, and I would be missing it.

So I turned on the email notifications again, but this time I removed a bunch of people that were creating a whole lot of noise. This has really made things much more manageable.

I don’t mind people who post frequently, but it has to be worth reading. I’ll have to keep that in mind when I start posting more frequently. It’s not quantity, but quality.

By the Way, if the phrase “Information Apathy” hasn’t been used before, I hereby coin it.

Image by Chance Agrella

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Pearl posted about the social networking Sites that she belongs to, and I figured I would give it a shot too. Here are the links to my profile pages, join if you would like, or ignore it, it’s your call.

Pownce - I still think they need to add a notification when someone replies to something you have replied to, but otherwise, this is one of my favorites.

My Blog Log - This one has stuck. I really like sending private messages with other bloggers, it’s an easy way to tell them something is broken without posting it on their site. Love the stats and the widget.

Del.icio.us - Constantly use this Del.icio.us, love it. I don’t use regular bookmarks anymore. I can’t say that I use the social networking features of it though.

Digg - I subscribe to my friends submissions, so that I can digg them too. That’s about the most I use it for. I don’t generally “digg” my own stories, but you’re welcome too.

Last.FM - I use this one sporadically. I use Pandora more than Last.FM.

Flickr - I haven’t posted anything here since I found out you can only display 200 (?) pictures at a time. Bummer. I meant to set up my own photo site, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Blog Catalog - Their widget looks exactly like My Blog Log’s widget, but their site is much nicer looking, although painfully slow to load. I stick to My Blog Log, but I still belong to this one too.

Feel free to post any sites you really like.

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