Triona's Tech Tips

Social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are widely used, but they can also take a big chunk out of your day. How can you manage your social media time?

1) Schedule when you’re going to use social media sites, then stick to it. If you limit your time to, say, a half hour every morning or an hour twice a week, you’ll get more out of your time online plus save room for the other things you need to do.

2) Integrate your efforts by using tools that let you send a single post to multiple places. For example, you might use LinkedIn’s Twitter feature to automatically post your LinkedIn status to your Twitter account.

3) Avoid chat, games and other timewasters. Tempting as they are, they cheat you out of productive time. Games in particular can also be venues for viruses. If you must play games, look for those that let you choose when to play, like card games, as opposed to those that penalize you for not using them regularly, like Farmville. And avoid groups that claim you’ll get X number of game goodies if you join–again, most of those are laden with viruses.

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