Lost in a sea of technology

If you are like me, you are struggling everyday just to keep up with the latest technologies and praying that it will slow down so you can catch up. If you aren't blogging, tweeting, twibing, Im'ing, Facebooking (is there a verb for posting on FB yet?!), texting, emailing video conferencing or pod casting then you are clearly asleep at the wheel and quickly become a relic. It feels like if you slow down for a second, the information super highway is going to make roadkill of you in short order. I have anxiety just writing about it!

I now keep a spreadsheet of all of the accounts I have--log-in's, passwords etc. for Twitter, Twipe, Facebook, BlogSpot, Skype, GoToMeeting.com, e-mail, IM, MySpace, Gather, Spoke, Linked IN---there are more names on the list than were at my wedding.

So here's what I've decided to do--I've decided NOT to try and do all of it. I mean come on, it is ridiculous to think that anyone can hold down a full time job and do all of this stuff (while maintaining any sense of sanity whatsoever!). I have decided to weed out what I don't need. Mostly what I need is business. Facebook isn't helping my business, IM is just distracting, and I am drowning in email because I have several accounts. I am consolidating and having only one--I will spend more time calling my friends and family and less time feeling guilty because I can't respond to their emails, and I will be honest and tell them that I won't respond unless I can. I have decided that we have to set boundaries and limit what we try to take on, lest we become the roadkill previously mentioned. My Space is so yesterday and texting, Hello?! No, I'm downsizing in an effort to be more efficient and lean. Are you with me??

Here's to pulling into the slow lane!