The only thing that takes anytime the way I am using any of the Social Media sites is deleting spam and ducking sheep.

And the two blogs. Blogging does take time. I only post on ActiveRain about once a week so it takes very little time. Having a plan there has paid off.

I don’t do any of the other stuff on RealTown because it would be an investment of time that I do not see a pay off for. RT is NOT intuitive to get around so I can’t use it.

Not reading directions or setting up profiles on the social media sites have saved me a lot of time. Probably not the best way to use social media though…

I joined MySpace months ago and have no profile, no time involved there. I have an account on Facebook and it does take too much time to delete the spam in my mailbox but Facebook is just fed my blogs so there is no work involved there. I joined Facebook last spring or summer and probably have a pretty sketchy profile there.

I have less than 50% of a profile on Linkedin.

I don’t look for people on any of the sites except Twitter Finding pople there is pretty easy.

I wait for people to find me and add me as a friend. Someone Twittered for me to add him as a friend on Facebook the other day and I think that may have been the first time I added a friend on Facebook. Or maybe I had long ago when I first joined.

I have never until yesterday tried the thing where a site search your address books on other social media platforms. I don’t read directions on anything so I did end up sending an invite ( for Trust? ) to someone who is not a member. Someone from Spock is in another comment on this blog, telling me I did not read directions. Duh! Of course I did not.
That’s the point of the blog…

I like Spock though and I don’t see it as a site that will involve work for me.

Twitter did not take anytime to set up and does not generate any spam so that is one reason I now after about 9 months appreciate Twitter. I don’t do Twitter from my phone.

Plaxo Pulse I joined more recently… it is an address book? I don’t have any idea how much of a presence I have there. If I am supposed to do a profile I have not done one. PP is designed to save time?? I have not had a lot of spam from it so I like it better than some.

Blogging and social media are part of real estate… this is what the real estate gurus are telling the industry we have to spend time doing for leads. It’s that or pay for leads.

Ginger ,
A SM (social media) dashboard may be the application that people would pay money for.