The Social Media Time Crunch
With all the focus on the diminishing attention and the general availability of time in my life, I spent some time itemizing what I do and throwing it into a spreadsheet, just to get an idea of how much time I’m investing in social media.
That sleep bar continues to shrink – can’t be good.
Legend:
- Travel – Commute, Air travel
- Friends – Directly engaged and interacting in person
- Family – Engaged as a dad, husband, son, brother, uncle, cousin
- TV – Various – family overlay most of the time
- Sleep – dreaming, REM, tossing, turning
- Email - Personal – private, Personal – public, Spam, Work
- Social Media – Reading, writing, searching, thinking, posting
- Work – Thinking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, speaking
- Meetings – Listening, learning, sharing, watching, talking
So I’m on the lookout for a new productivity tool for social media and this whole FriendFeed is a great candidate for my new social interface. Can’t imagine the time slice of social media Chris Brogan, Aaron Brazell or Erin Kotecki Vest have on their spreadsheets, I bet their sleep bar is considerably smaller than mine.
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twitter took 3 or 4 months for sure, I use friendfeed as a quick look digest, not as a tool I actively interact with.
My sleep bar is smaller and I don’t watch TV. My family would be higher than my work, and my friends would be about equal with my travel.
Neat exercise. : )
My TV time is nearly non-existent, my email and meetings time would be higher. my sleep would be lower (but growing as work-life balance is getting more under control).
Interesting exercise…
Where is the line for exercise, walking around, seeing the world, being out on the street or in the air?
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I’ve been trying out Friend Feed but so far it isn’t sticking with me.
On the other hand, I really didn’t get Twitter when I first tried it, either.