Social Media Overload?

Any day now,  this will be known as the Social Media Age, and not the Information Age anymore. 

When fire up my web browser, the first thing I do is open up tabs for Facebook, Twitter, Google + (dull as it is), Tumblr, Blogspot, and StumbleUpon.  These are all social media platforms that are dominating hours of our time each day -  I'm not sure if I can keep up anymore. 

The question is whether or not there's really a need for so many social media platforms.  Are they crowding each other out? It's not always convenient (or sensible) to repeat posts/tweets on more than one platform, but we try to stay active on all of them anyway. Wouldn't it make more sense to collaborate all platforms into one? 

Essentially Google + has combined Twitter and Facebook, and added a few elements of its own.  Whether the two aforementioned platforms will become redundant once Google + really takes off is something I'll be interested to see, but I doubt it  -  

The online community seems to be loving things just the way they are, embracing each new social tool and giving a few more hours a week to the social media phenomenon we're all so addicted to (and I am no exception). 

Battle of the Browers

When it comes to internet browsers, I suppose we all have our preferences - but the image above is a pretty apt description of how I feel about the matter. I gave up using Internet Explorer pretty much the same day I, as a twelve year old, learnt that there were other (better) options.

I then moved on to Firefox, which I used up until Chrome was released - again, a better option. And then Rockmelt came along, which I was impressed with for about two months, until they got ahead of themselves and tried to take over Facebook (the way I used it, at any rate).

So now here I stand, a die-hard Chrome loyalist, waiting for the next big thing.