September 10th, 2008 After dealing with a lot of the clutter weighing down my Web 2.0 existence a few months ago, I have again come to a time where I feel like keeping up with all of these social networking sites is more trouble than it’s worth. I’m not sure yet if it’s just a general lack of motivation or not — I have trouble getting the energy to write in my blog as well these days as well. Regardless, as is my custom every six or so months, it’s time to cut back on the sites and services that I am using.

Does anyone really care about what I have to say on Twitter Probably not. There was a time where I would use it to make sarcastic quips about things that I noticed or bothered me, but it has slowly turned into a place where I dump the most mundane thoughts. Newsvine is an excellent site, but reading the comments there are just depressing.

Flickr is outstanding for what it is, and I have no plans to discard it any time soon, but even that has suffered from a lack of attention due to the fact that I haven’t done a lot (of photo worthy things) since vacation earlier this summer. Last.fm is surprisingly the site that I get the most use of lately. I say ’surprisingly’ because I had gotten rid of my membership there last December.

It’s been a great way to learn about new artists evaluate my listening habits, and I’m not sure why I dumped it in the first place. With all of that said, I feel like getting rid of any of these sites outright is probably hasty, and I have no intention of doing so any time soon. However, if you see me out there a lot less, you know why.

Additionally, I have a few blog posts in the pipeline, but I’m starting to question co