Its time to clean out your social media profiles.
A lot of people have been buzzing about what they are doing with their profiles such as Hugh MacLeod deleting his twitter account, and Andrew Baron putting his Twitter account up for sale (as written about by Chris Brogan). Which you can see the ebay auction here.
I recently wrote about this very subject just days before in an article analyzing the monetary value of a social networking profile.
So take your pic from the list below showing all the Social Networking services and start doing some Spring Social Media Cleaning:
List of Social Media Sites
Another list from SEOmoz
Mashable – list of 350 social networking sites
Ask yourself a few key questions:
are you using all your profiles? Everyday? Every Week? Every Month?
Are you gaining the original value from them?
Do you want to have 50+ profiles with your information in them?
If you are anything like me, making an account or a profile on every new service that comes out, it definitely ads up. I tend to use some of the same usernames, profile pictures, login names on many services so that I can guarantee my identity on the service and ensure that I will at least attempt to use it for awhile. The true test of a service is whether I am there 30 days later.
I will say that there are some accounts that I do not use that I plan on keeping – but others I may purge. One thing that I have started to do is tag my new profiles and accounts so that I can keep track of how many I actually have. At this point I know it is in the hundreds (thousands?) so I think it is time for a little social media spring cleaning.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Great image. Where'd you pick that up?
April 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Great image. Where'd you pick that up?
April 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Great image. Where'd you pick that up?
April 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I created it myself for this post:)
I did borrow the broom from the wikimedia commons, and I believe I am
using it under the right license for my own work.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I created it myself for this post:)
I did borrow the broom from the wikimedia commons, and I believe I am
using it under the right license for my own work.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I created it myself for this post:)
I did borrow the broom from the wikimedia commons, and I believe I am
using it under the right license for my own work.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Great image. Where'd you pick that up?
April 14th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
I created it myself for this post:)
I did borrow the broom from the wikimedia commons, and I believe I am
using it under the right license for my own work.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:39 am
I would say we are bad in not keeping up with our social media connections. It shouldn't be lost on businesses the unlimited potential of business to be had through networking and staying in touch with business owners and consumers.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:39 am
I would say we are bad in not keeping up with our social media connections. It shouldn't be lost on businesses the unlimited potential of business to be had through networking and staying in touch with business owners and consumers.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:39 am
I would say we are bad in not keeping up with our social media connections. It shouldn't be lost on businesses the unlimited potential of business to be had through networking and staying in touch with business owners and consumers.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 am
I would say we are bad in not keeping up with our social media connections. It shouldn't be lost on businesses the unlimited potential of business to be had through networking and staying in touch with business owners and consumers.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Great post.. This is quite interesting.. Having lots of profile in one social media makes your personal information very visible to all.. thanks for posting this.. by the way.. I also like the image.. very nice..
November 14th, 2009 at 12:32 am
We really need to clean and this includes our profiles: be free from unnecessary and redundant info.
December 11th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I think generally speaking that keeping a couple of good social networking profiles, updated close to daily is smart, but having tons that just sit there is a waste of time.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:06 am
I think generally speaking that keeping a couple of good social networking profiles, updated close to daily is smart, but having tons that just sit there is a waste of time.