Social networking... yea, I wish I had more time... or maybe more hair?

Let's see there is Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, Squidoo, MyLife, Vox, and Jaiku, and then there is also YouTube, Blogger, and the eBay community just to name a few. You can Digg, Follow, Search, and blog, but who has time for all this? Surely not Mr Bump, although I try as best I can to keep up with out pulling out my hair.

Social networking can be defined as a group of people with like minded ideas who meet online on popular websites to discuss and trade information, make friends, and promote their online businesses. In a nut shell, social networking means big bucks to those that have the time and skills needed to engage, contact, respond, and followup.

So how do I keep up? Like everyone else, I spend my online free time blogging, and then visiting the more popular social networking sites first, before moving onto the other less popular social networking sites. I won't name them by name because each site works differently for everyone. But I will say that I am not here to give you advice on the best place to social network, but the advice I do give you is not to try to do it all, choose your poison, drink it, just don't pull your hair out trying to do it all. You can make better use of your time concentrating on one or two social networking sites than pullng your hair out trying to do it all.

As for me, like many of you may be, I am a single parent, with a day job. I also own and run the very popular AuctionBump.com website. Time is tight, and hair is well better left on your head.

Here is a current list of active social networking sites from wikipedia Social Networking List

So many, so little time...

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It's been a crazy busy spring for me but things are now finally settling down some. Now that I have some free time I thought I would get back into blogging again. This time I have installed my blog on my website AuctionBump.com so that I and my advertisers can gain the benefits of the SEO traffic to my website via the blogging content. So, anyway, I would like to introduce my new blog - Ramblings of Mr Bump. I may blog about new and interesting things going on in the bump world, ebay, or just things on my mind. So stay tuned...