Vijay Basrur

Social Networking Time Drain

I was reading David Pogue’s Twittering Tips for Beginners and was quite amsued by this quote of his

I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail and blogs and Web sites and Facebook and chat and text messages, who on earth has the bandwidth to keep interrupting the day to visit a Web site and type in, “I’m now having lunch”? And to read the same stuff being broadcast by a hundred other people?

And sometimes I feel it is so true..some of these have become time drains, haven’t they? Unless you are disciplined about it you can go through an entire day twittering, facebooking, orkuting and other such (blogging for ex ).

Time to get back to work!