{"id":2345,"date":"2011-11-01T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ann-tran.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2012-01-23T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:36:29","slug":"balancing-life-and-your-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ann-tran.com\/2011\/11\/balancing-life-and-your-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Life and Your Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"
How many hours a day do we spend on our social networks? Balancing life and your social networks is a common challenge all active social media users share.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Some of you probably think I spend all day on Twitter because my feed is pretty active. In fact, you may have even figured out that I schedule my tweets.<\/p>\n I program my tweets throughout the day but do hop on to say hi and thank you or respond to my @ messages. Scheduling tweets allows me to keep my life balance and meet other friends that are not in my time zone.<\/p>\n In the morning, I check my mentions stream to look for new people I haven’t seen on my TweetDeck before. I enjoy re-tweeting one or more new people each day.\u00a0 I program my tweets and re-tweets throughout the day so I don\u2019t tweet bomb my Twitter feed.<\/p>\n I tweet while I blog or watch a movie but I never tweet while I am out at dinner or at social functions unless it\u2019s at a tweet-up and that is part of the agenda. I spend quite a bit of time on Twitter but I don\u2019t feel that it is a waste of time because I catch up on the news from the Twitterverse instead of watching the news on the tube. I value my social networks because they offer a way to communicate, educate, learn and share with the world. I appreciate the wealth of knowledge that comes in my feed.<\/p>\n I have a Facebook account but I am not as active on my page. I just love the speed of Twitter.<\/p>\n Everything in moderation is fine, and if you enjoy it then have FUN!<\/p>\n I asked ten people to tell me about their typical day on the net and what secrets they would like to share with their followers to help with balancing life and your social networks:<\/p>\n\n\n
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