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Yep, we’re talking about me eating a big slice of humble-pie. I got caught up in the flurry of sharing. I got so caught up in it that ‘sharing’ and ‘spreading the word’ was all I did.

My blogging became.. well basically sharing, sharing, and more sharing.

Every type of social media sharing tool I could find I was using (abusing). I was not only blogging my thoughts here, but I was ‘sharing’ them across platforms. Micro-blogging everything was my new ‘thing’.

I had my lil ole’ blog here. I soon discovered you could ‘share’ your content on other blog-like sites. Everything from other blogging platforms to micro-blogging and aggregate feed sites. I wanted it all!

So I took out my butter knife and spreeeeaaaaad it out.

I created ‘sites’ on Blogger, Posterous, FriendFeed, Tumblr. Then I got accounts with LinkedIn, TweetPic, TweetPhoto, Ping.fm, Pixelpipe, Dropico, Yfrog, Whrrl, Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Amplify, etc.

Whew! I’m tired just typing all those let alone take the time to actually have accounts and utilize them appropriately!

Geesh. As I sit back and read them I still left quite a few out! Yeah, yeah, each one offers something in their own unique way. Each promotes something a lil’ different than the other. In the end it’s all about what you want, like, need, desire, use, and your end-game.

Are you a social media swimmer, a blogger, a micro-blogger, or some sort of mesh of all three. Personally I don’t think you CAN be all three. You have to choose a path eventually.

AAAnd eventually is where I am now.

I’ve always been a blogger. Micro-blogging is and can be an attribute of being a blogger, but in the end you type blog posts. I was a blogger that wanted so badly to share my thoughts and ideas that after I got the blogging thing down – I thought the next thing was to spread it around!

Well I took that butter knife and spread myself out so thin that I sort of lost the blogger. I’m now down to using my blog, my Posterous site, and my Amplify. Twitter and Facebook aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. So it really comes down to me and my ideas. Where do they go.

I always have been a fan of Posterous, but Amplify is slowly taking its place simply because of it’s versatility. Yep, pros and cons to each. In the end I simply want to ‘amplify’ my own blog, nothing more nothing less. Having the Posterous site is just another darn blog in my opinion.

In the end I’ll keep everything I’ve created, but the noise is going to be at a much lower level. Just me, my blog, and the amplification I find through Amplify, Twitter and Facebook.

Information overload. That’s what happened. I got caught up in the darn rat-race of that thing called social media and I stopped writing.

GRR.

Back to the basics I say. Back to blogging.

For those of you who have stuck around I apologize for all the ‘noise’. I promise I’m going to do better.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming…

(OK. So the original title of this post had the word suicide in it – I came to my senses after I typed it out. I didn’t need anyone thinking this was a life or death situation given the current headlines in the media)