| We live in a fast paced world full of distraction. | | | | market and what's going on in the world but you can't |
| Cell phones, text message, email, and news sites are | | | | spend all your time connected. |
| all doing a great job of distracting people. However, | | | | So what can you do? |
| there's type of website that is challenging for the time | | | | Simple. |
| wasting title. | | | | Turn all that stuff off. |
| Social networking sites! | | | | For example, here's how I use Twitter. Every morning I |
| You may know them better as the Facebooks, | | | | log on and post my first Tweet of the day. I read |
| MySpaces, and Twitters of the world. There are | | | | through my current feed to see if there's anything that |
| people who have programs running on their computer | | | | interests me. Then I follow a few new people that |
| (maybe you do too) that update in real time so that | | | | sound interesting to me. |
| you don't miss a single message. | | | | And then I'm off Twitter for the rest of the morning. I |
| Talk about a distraction. | | | | don't check it again. |
| I don't know how people can get any actual work | | | | In the afternoon I'll either post another Tweet or I'll use |
| done with those things running. I remember for a short | | | | one of those scheduling tools to schedule one to be |
| time I had a tech news feed sitting on my computer. It | | | | posted later. I'll check my feed one more time to see if |
| lasted three days before I got rid of it because even | | | | there's anything I feel the need to reply to and that's it. |
| though it only updated once every hour, I'd still go | | | | I don't spend more than 15 minutes a day using Twitter, |
| check out anything that looked interesting. | | | | and unless you're trying to kill time, you shouldn't either. |
| These sites may be useful for their networking | | | | It's a great tool but it's like drinking alcohol - it should be |
| purposes and to help you take the pulse of your | | | | consumed in moderation. |