I’ve been into consolidating my life recently and I have found that Social Networks are not helping.  I find that despite the propaganda to the contrary, Social networks decentralize me since they don’t share any common repository of information.   What I mean is; I have a Facebook profile, that can automatically post my recent Diggs, which I can tweet about.  Even though it appears to be connected, these attempts at centralizing a inherently decentralized setup has only giving me too many places to spread myself and police content about myself.

Granted the nature of my profession requires that I have a strong on-line presences so I am keeping a few core on-line accounts with sites like Linkedin and Elance.  I have benefited from those two sites in a measurable way and therefore, since they are a positive influence, I see no reason to delete them.

Anyways I got this idea from an episode from CBC Spark and it seemed a good way to trim off some excess Web2.0 Fat.