Living on the Social Grid

I have always had an aversion to using social networking sites, yet some sort of fascination that requires me to sign up for every single one of them. I suppose this comes from the desire that there will be the one definitive social networking site that will rule them all. That would be the one site to connect work and social life seamlessly with the ability to link calendars address books, fun, games and general connectivity! Well, that was all a crock. In the long standing war of social sites they have all promised this and only Facebook has brought us close to the dream.
My downfall with social networking always found the form of disinterest. For something that is always evolving and being built upon, both from a user and an administrator stand point, I've always become quickly bored with theses sites. My normal run on any social network usually lasts less than one month. At which time I find myself checking in with less frequency and eventually allowing my profile to go dead.
This all brings me to the point, what can social networking actually do for us? What are the proper ways to use social networking to maximize our efficiency in life as well as be able to enjoy the company of others in ways that are more meaningful? I am to ask myself, and test these questions through the next month. My lack of interest in these things has already hindered me. Being May 5th and I wanted to have this started by the 1st, I am already wrestling with the "I don't care demon."
So, for those of you reading this, I am embarking on a thirty day journey in which I will live on the grid of social networking as much as possible. To do this; I have created a few rules to help me stay on track and maximize my online presence.

1. I must update my status at least 2 times a day, and then comment on two more. Facebook users generate 90 articles of unique content every month. This could include notes, link posts, and status updates. Looking at this average, and knowing a few more numbers it works out to 1.5 status updates a day.
2. I have to tweet once a day. This rule is mostly because I really don't like using Twitter but it is going to just be my update engine. 
3. Pictures, pictures, pictures! Anything I find interesting is going to be captured and uploaded to Facebook or Twit-pic. I like Twitter's service for pictures better because of Facebook's policy on who owns what gets posted. 
4. Capture how much time I am spending networking each day: I am going to be trying to count how many hours I am spending with these devices.
5. Blog about updates: Keeping a running tally of how productive, or un-productive, this project is making me is going to be essential to my end goal. 
6. I will only use Recommended Privacy Settings in all social networking sites: No more ghosting and being uber-private. 
7. The rules can be changed! If I decided to add a rule at one point, because maybe it's something I am doing that I didn't think of, or if a rule needs appended (number of updates needs to be increased) the rules can be changed. No rule can be deleted or lessened. 

Well, that's all I have for now. I hope that some of you will follow me through this journey; at least you'll get to see awesome vacation pics next week, and that I can learn something in the process.

Here is the list of media I will be using:

• Twitter: chris_p_price
• Facebook: facebook.com/chrispatrickprice
• foursquare: I'll send the link when I remember it

Until tomorrow,

CHRIS