De-meterializing online

I've found that maintaining an 'adequate' online social presence is almost as demanding as owning alot of stuff.

Blogging requires weekly (and preferably daily) entries to keep your audience coming back (or subscribed to the RSS feed) for more.

Just BEING on facebook, myspace or any of the other sites out there requires 'a few hours' to a day or two, per month (for some per week) to keep up with the 'social interation' required to be an active user.

Twitter... don't get me started. And the social pressure it creates ('you should get on twitter more often'... got that again this Saturday from a dear friend).

I'm very tempted to shut down all the online social interaction stuff as well (including this blog). I've largely done it but it keeps poking at me, trying to pull me back.

Like owning stuff and feeling owned by it, owning a blog/twitter/facebook account also feels like I'm owned by it (it, literally, requires you feed it). If you don't feed them, they start to yell at you (usually through your friends).