I was just on my Ping.fm page. Ping.fm is a social service aggregate site. It allows you to post to any combination of social sites you belong to at once. I find I use it everyday now.

But while there it dawned on me that I use WAY too many micro-blog sites. Forget this blog, my Halloween blog, my work blog, my Facebook page , my MySpace page, my tumblr and whatever else. I’m just talking about micro-blogs here.

“What the hell is a micro-blog?” I hear you cry. Micro-blogs are social sites that give you a limited number of characters to post quick messages to friends and followers. The most famous is Twitter. But as Twitter has exploded there is a large crowd of clones following in its footsteps.
And that’s cool…that’s cool man. The question is, WHY AM I ON ALL OF THEM? I, and many of my fellow twitterers, jump on every one of these things that come down the pipe. Part of it is just curiosity. It’s a new API to play with and that’s always fun.
Part of it is frustration with the many growing pains of twitter. Seems there is always some problem going on with the servers and up pops that damn whale.
But another part of it is this ridiculous fear of being left behind in an obsolete social network. You don’t want to wake up one day and find all of your twitter friends are gone and you have no one to fake talk to because you missed the boat on some new service that does exactly the same thing but it’s got AJAX! or “Leo’s on it!”.
Much like the - hang on let me count - 14 social sites I belong to, there really is no point to this post other than to beg all you social butterflies in virtual world, can we please pick one already?

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So, I seem to be leaning towards identi.ca more and more now. It’s very open, it integrates with Twhirl, the layout is clean and it’s been up every time I’ve used it. Of course that could be hit or miss if it becomes twitter popular. But I think I may move to them.

Ok, I’m off to FriendFeed.

Tags: social networks, Tech, twitter