3 Easy Tips To Use Social Networking Sites More Efficiently

One obvious reason, why many people do not participate actively on all the social networking sites is the lack of time and participating and following in all or many of them is too tedious. People usually participate with good enthusiasm on couple of them and ignore the rest. Moreover, when you walk through LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, you really do not have that much of patience or time to visit rest of them.

Here are simple tips to handle and keep a track of most of the social networking sites.

1. RSS Feeds makes it really simple. Most of social networking sites do provide RSS feeds and it is easy to keep track in your usual RSS reader, rather than log in and read the updates on the netwroking sites. You just need to subscribe the feeds of people you want to know the updates for say in Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. In your RSS reader, you can read the status messages and you can choose on which updates you want to respond for. Yes, to respond to conversations, you do have to go to the social networking site and submit. But, in RSS reader you really can choose to what updates or conservations you need to respond and you can keep yourself updated.
2. Setting the email or SMS notifications makes it short. Social media sites do provide email notifications and options to which you can select to receive email for. Set the options for which you want to receive email. You will be periodically updated through the emails. And I guess you really check your emails regularly. Twitter has a very good option to have an SMS sent to your mobile phone. Select the important ones and have the SMS option enabled to receive your important peoples’ tweets on your mobile.
3. Do many at a time in one snap. Update your status on most of the networking sites at a time. There are a number of applications and services available that allows you to update the status of more than one social networking site at one go. Update only once in this application and it is updated at most of the networking sites at the same time. www.ping.fm and www.hellotxt.com are couple of them. In both these websites, you can send status messages via mobile phone, IMs like MSN, AOL, Yahoo or GTalk and any of the networking sites itself. In turn these sites post the status update message on various networking sites (about 30+ sites) in one snap.

I would not suggest having your accounts everywhere and keeping updating them. I would rather suggest use few ones and good ones where you feel your like-minded network is and participate enthusiastically and strategically. As I feel, what ever time you spent on these networking sites should be productive and useful to you and others as well. So, happy networking with these simple tips.