Comments on: How to downsize your social network portfolio

Using a slew of social networking services is great, but as Don Reisinger explains, that practice doesn't deliver the most rewarding Web experience. To fix that, Don has compiled a list of services you should use exclusively.

[Zandora777]

Not sure how the author could mention so many of these useless sights and not mention LinkedIn and Plaxo (for how popular and useful they are) as well as Naymez (for how stupid and useless it is).

[bmorsh]

In response to your comment, Zandora777, I qualify LinkedIn as a professional networking tool (not a social one). I agree with you on Plaxo and Naymez. I have a very long list of stupid and/or useless ones too.

[bp92]

I guess I want different things from my video content. Youtube is the MySpace of the video sites, early lead but simply too horrible to use on a longer term basis and the bulk of the users make you cringe.

Vimeo is hands down much better in terms of site design and video quality. I also much prefer the user generated content on vimeo.

[spitzcor]

The article touched on micro-blogging, but what about real blogging? What's the best tool? LiveJournal? Blogger? WordPress?

[venkyiyer]

facebook is the world's largest social network, not myspace

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/facebook-is-not-only-the-worlds-largest-social-network-it-is-also-the-fastest-growing/

[DavidSpinks]

Great post. I have thought about this many times before. Is it better to keep accounts in all the sites that can link back to the sites you maintain regularly or just delete the ones you don't maintain?

[bonochromatic]

Why do I feel like this is just a list of the sites that Reisinger himself is a member of?

I mean, Reddit? You serious?

[skriv]

I don't think constantly trimming your portfolio is the best strategy. Rather, sign up for everything and use FriendFeed.com (or something like that). That way if you do some one-off thing in some old account that doesn't make your A List, it is still captured.

[pcubed]

I completely agree with your picks here! Well done. Reddit is one of the greatest communities on the net, hands down.

[Harrison912]

Thanks, Don, for breaking this all down for us. I'm on most of these sites to socially market my safety and security web site and I find your observations to be right on.

[jh2fct]

I use Diigo with my students because it is the best way to annotate and share the bookmarks. I can create entire lesson plans from Diigo bookmarks. That kind of functionality can't be found with Delicious. I am not sure how they compare but I am a fan of the diigo toolbar for Firefox.

Outside of lesson plans I find the annotation features make Diigo more "social".

I guess it depends on what you social bookmarking for.