Personally, I think you should pick the places that appeal to you (and that draw an audience for you) and ignore the rest.

That said, I maintain an active profile on facebook and twitter. I have my tweets automatically posted to my facebook page and to my blog as status updates which makes things a little more automated and efficient. I have a myspace page but don’t check it very often and would prefer to never check it.

I’d much rather comment on other blogs then maintain hundreds of profiles on different websites.

It’s a tough balance between online promoting, offline promoting and actually creating and performing our material, but it makes for interesting times!

Cheers,
Ben

When a new website pops up called SillyPhotosOfMomAndDadPlusSocialNetworking.com and everyone starts joining it, then you’ll be able to find me there as well

Right now, I’m on just about every networking website.. facebook, myspace, twitter, vimeo, youtube, livejournal, blogger, funnyordie, blip.tv, linkedin, friendster, and more.. I don’t check most of them that often except the active ones that give responses. For instance, when I post a video on youtube, it’ll generally get at least 50 to 100 hits in the first day. On vimeo, however, I’m generally the only one who sees it…

I also read and comment on a whole bunch of blogs and such.. it’s kind of a sad, pointless existance, but I only stick with the websites that I find entertaining, so there’s that–

I haven’t heard of anyone who uses twitter exclusively, my understanding is that twitter is used in addition to myspace and/or facebook. Not instead of. Have you had a different experience? I’d be interested to hear about it…

And using twitter has a good and bad for sure. I like the challenge of fitting a message into 140 characters, makes me work at tightening my words