Last month Cisco bought Five Across and just a few days ago pulled in Tribe.net. Who knows what Cisco will do with a social network, but doesn’t everyone want their very own social network? I mean they’re all the rage these days, and all the kids are doing it. The question is how is the average person suppose to manage all of the different social networks, platforms, bookmarks, blogs, and RSS feeds popping up everyday? I mean seriously, how many social networking products can the average person handle before they ignore the whole space?

My thoughts, sarcasm included…

Everyone needs a Myspace page and Tom CANNOT be your only friend, plus you need a cool layout, upload videos, search your favorite bands, add your favorite song, add friends, thank friends for the add.. Am I missing anything?

What about Jobster? They are working hard to slay the Monster, why not join them? They’re offering a hip new Myspace for the workplace feel, equipped with personalized search engine optimized pages, video, personal Q&A, superstar tags, and a growing number of other wild and cool un-Monster offerings.

LinkedIN is a professional must have, plus you were an early adopter and have over a million connections right?

Then you can take a quick jaunt over to Google Groups, Yahoo 360, YouTube, Ryze, Friendster, Classmates, Ning, Flickr, and Fotolog to make sure you’re not missing anything. I mean your friends are scattered to the four social networking winds so you MUST follow suit.

Now it’s time to check out your RSS reader for blogs, news, and whatever you want piped into your Google Homepage, my personal choice.

Don’t forget to register for your favorite social bookmarking site, pick from Del.icio.us, FURL, reddit, Technorati, Newsvine, Ma.gnolia, Google Bookmarks, Squidoo, BlinkBits, Rojo, Shadows, Co.mments, Bloglines, digg, blinklist, Feed Me Links, Yahoo My Web, Socializer, Stumble Upon, and about a zillion others.

In closing, the formula has always been “Find out what works and beat it to death with a stick!“. The question is, out of all of these wonderful web 2.0 offerings, who is going to be on the receiving end of the stick?

If the average person can’t keep up, then the adoption rate is slow. If the adoption rate is slow, just make sure you’re on the right end of the stick.

Oh, did I mention Cisco bought Tribe.net?

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