LinkedIn - great for professionally networking.
Facebook - Great for socially networking, light information.
Twitter - Still trying to find other uses than following Celebrities.
Google reader - Great for gathering related information on a daily basis.
I have been using Google Reader for a while now as a mass information source, kinda like a big pile of your favourite magazines - it's a one stop way to follow a lot of diffeent blogs and streams of content rich information. One of the main features of Google Reader is it can be very visual, it downloads images in the news streams with text where needed (Facebook and Twitter do not do this, and following streams on Flicker, is pretty much images only). Google Reader is also very flexible, it will Report on most websites and integrates with many seamlessly. Since I read a lot of design, fashion, architecture blogs which are image rich, Google reader works out great.
Then about a month ago, I found the "sharing feature"
This allows you to share your favourite articles with other Google Reader users. WICKED!. Also with this it allows you to Follow other users, kinda twitter style. So it starts to build a community, that way I can see what other subjects / articles my other Design friends note that are of interest. Having many eyes in the design world is great and I guess the Share and Follow aspects are building comunity just like Twitter does.
SO If this sounds appealing to you, I suggest you look it up here
Anyone can check out my stream of shared articles here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/jbucky1
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