I found myself catching up on a bunch of blog articles that I had checked and not read over the past month. There were over 30 of them and it took a diligent 2 hours to read through them all.

Some were interesting enough to tag in my del.icio.us account and others I emailed to staff or friends to look at.

I'm exhausted.

I also downloaded a bunch of podcasts so that I can listen to them as I walk the dog all next week, but downloading podcasts sometimes takes a long time on my DSL. I could wait until I get into work where the connection is faster, but, well, I took a break to make some coffee.

Then I started into old emails that needed to be filed, answered, deleted, etc.

I'm really getting tired.

Finally, I went to the several blogs that I adminster (including this one) and deleted the p0rn comment spam that is starting to show up. I know that soon we will have a way to deal with this, but in the meantime, I need to be diligent (there's that word again) so that my "space" does not look like a brothel.

I didn't have any time this weekend to get out with friends, go Christmas shopping or call my family. I was too busy managing my social connections on the Web. I am experiencing social software fatigue or SSFS for short (the last "S" is for syndrome since everything seems to be a mental illness these days.

SSFS is when you spend more time managing your connections than making connections with real people and real friends. You know it's especially bad when you spend MORE time managing than living. It's kind of like spending more time washing your car than driving it, but even that's not a very good analogy.

Doubtless, this will all get easier as the tools converge and things become more convenient (or my friends stop calling), but in the meantime, I am thinking of looking for a SSFS 12 step program.

Lessee,

My name is John Mayer and I am a SSFaholic.

HI JOHN!!!

Would someone please intervene.