Bye bye Facebook! Welcome Useful Days!

A month ago I decided to decrease by web participation focusing my contributions through three main channels:

1. this blog: it is my main web presence, where I share complete ideas and stories about my professional and personal experiences.
2. Twitter: this is a mini-blog that I decided to keep using because it accepts publications of 140 characters only, saving my time when I really want to share something with you and my duties don't allow me.
3. LinkedIn: this is a social network focused on professional links and discussions. It was the only community I found that really has something to add to my carrier. The rest is for fun.
   

To keep only these three channels I had to make some hard decisions. First and hardest one was to leave Facebook. This social network is really interesting because you become friends of your own real friends, keeping a permanent contact with them, independent of culture, geography, interests, etc. The problem is that the lives of my friends are really interesting. I spent a lot of time reading their comments, looking at their amazing pictures, videos, participating in games and jokes. I tried to make my participation there very interesting for others too, which is twice as time consuming. I tried to find all my current Facebook's contacts in LinkedIn and I actually found most of them. If you were my friend in Facebook and not in LinkedIn, then you probably received a connection invitation if you have an account there. I am not so active in LinkedIn, but at least I didn't lose my contacts and they are very calm there.

I also left many discussion groups, mailing lists, other social networks and website signatures. Every single email I received from these sites I entered in the respective cancelation page to avoid any future message. This innitiative reduced the volume of daily emails from 40 to 10 (75%), saving my time a lot. I realized that my day became more productive because I stopped reading and replying so many email messages, my attention is more focused and things started to run faster.

On the other hand, I was quite a popular guy, with an active participation on many topics of my interest and in several initiatives promoted by different communities. I will miss it a lot, as I already do, but a more focused life is also good in a long term perspective.

Now, I have basically these three forms of exposition, as listed above, all of them following principles of social networking, but with a more constructive approach. I only hope you become a follower of this blog and share with me what you think about my thoughts. You have three options:

• RSS: if you want to be notified about all updates of this blog, please use my RSS feeds on your favority RSS reader (i.e. Google Reader)
• Google Friend Connect: if you want to be notified about all updates and also demonstrate your support to my blog. The figure below shows the window to become by friend through this blog. Everybody is welcome!
• Comment my posts: just below of each post you can click on "comments" and add your own comment there.
  

The RSS and Google Friend Connect can be easily accessed in the column on the right. Comments can be added for each post. It will not appear immediately because I have to approve the content first avoiding spammers, but it's a matter of a day maximum. Let's keep in touch sharing interesting and valuable ideas.

PS: I was afraid to do what Eric Tip did in 2007 when the whole Internet was crashed. Don't you believe? So, watch the video below and see with your own eyes.