Pinar, I’m also most active on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The first is primarily personal, while that latter two are almost strictly professional.

I haven’t been to Quora in months. I know it’s useful for some people, but it doesn’t appeal to me.

In 2006-2007, I started using Facebook vigorously because I was trying to keep in touch with my friends from other countries, and spending time during a very boring internship. But towards the end of 2009, I was using Facebook for business, and learning everything I could about Twitter. Because ever since I picked up the copy of Twitterville, I’ve known that Twitter doesn’t have to be a limbo of mundaneness.

I keep reading all the good resources I can on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin – the three social sites that I have complete faith in, gotten to know and found the time to keep up with.

I love social media and social networking- both for what it can do for long distance friendships and business relationships, but I really wish people stopped developing one site after the other. It is too tiring to test out all the promising newcomers to see if it might be good for our promoting efforts.

P.S. I signed up for Quora after reading your post. While I don’t want to test new sites, I can’t afford to overlook them completely. : )

Charlotte, I’ve joined a handful of the blogger sites, but didn’t see much traffic. Ironically, the last one I signed up for was Yahoo’s MyBlogLog, in part because they pushed it at me so strongly on my Yahoo mail account, and then — poof — it’s gone.

I’m getting more out of Twitter these days, but it still has an odd narcissistic feel.

Parents and individuals will need to make a conscious choice to spend less time in front of screens. I’m not optimistic it will happen. The dominant trend in nearly all societies is to spend more and more time plugged in to something electronic.

John,
Yea – spending too much time in front of the computer isn’t healthy. I just think that the trend I’m seeing is for more computerization instead of less. Do you think the average family will be spending more time together over the next 10 years? From your perspective, what would it take for that to happen across our society?

TJ, I’d actually like to see the Internet be a little less popular. I’d like people to spend less time on computers, on cell phones and smart phones, and in front of television sets, and more time getting exercise and hanging out with friends and family.

Dave, I never had any desire to get involved with MySpace. By the time I was getting involved with social media it had already been eclipsed by Facebook, and it had a reputation as a place primarily for music groups, artists, and teens.