23 Things - Thing 21 Social Aggregators

I look at that title and want to say social aggravators! As I have learned more and more going through 23 Things I have often become irritated with all these sites, all the passwords, all the different Web 2.0 tools out there. I could easily spend my whole day on the computer checking out all these sites, updating, commenting, blogging,
posting. I barely can keep up with my facebook account and my 2 email accounts. Now I have all these other...I am just not good at this social interfacing.


"Currently the average social networking user uses two social networking websites; beyond that people find it hard to commit time to participating on other sites. As the social web evolves and we are forced to join more networks, data management will become very important so users are not overwhelmed." I totally agree with this statement from the Social Aggregation article. I do agree some sort of data management is needed, but I am not sure I would continue to use so many social networking sites.
Maybe if I was a younger person who enjoyed socializing on various web social sites, but I prefer to do my chatting and communicating in person, unless its a long distance friend, and then we use email or facebook.

I didn't join all these sites, but I looked at all their frontpages. I liked the way Netvibes looked on the front page, and I really liked the way Pageflakes looked too, it looked like a type of organization I could get my head around. I don't like the streaming type of organization that SocialThing does, it reminds me of facebook and I am not liking that very much. If you don't log on for a few days you miss what has been posted, because its off the page already! :)

So I joined Friendfeed. I really don't like the way it lists on the homepage. Ugh!
I think I will try another one later and join it. It is kind of easy to put all your sites on there. I thought it would be more difficult. I am hoping if I join the netvibes or pageflakes, it will be just as easy! And now as I am typing this I might be changing my mind about using it!