Looking around the blogs I read, the buzz for the last few weeks has been all Facebook, all the time. Before that, it was all Twitter. There's also a bit of Pownce buzz going around. I joined Twitter and Pownce, although I can't really say that I've seen a lot of value in either one; there's tiny bits of information conveyed in both, and the people I really need to talk to I deal with via IRC and IM. Sure, if I had a gazillion people to track, I'm sure IM would get out of hand. Then again, I couldn't possibly keep up with that many people, either.

So anyway - that leads me to today's ponder pointt: should I be using Facebook? I can tell from Scoble's posts on it that it can suck down time if you let it; on the other hand, it might well be a useful way to make and keep contacts - see Dare Obasanjo's post today, for instance, on some of the high profile users.

So I'll toss the question out for feedback: would using Facebook pay me back enough dividends to make up for whatever time I would have to sink into it?

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