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Where were you the last time a major baseball game or news event aired? Whether it was in your living room, the local sports bar or a friend’s super bowl party, you were most likely in more than one place at that time.

This sounds like a storyline pulled from a sci-fi movie, but it is reality. The era of the social network and all its marvelous social networking tools has made it possible for you to be virtually anywhere all at once. And what’s more, we can do most of our social networking right from our phones.

And your social circle is no longer limited to your friends and acquaintances from the places you’ve been and town where you live. Being an active member of an online social network community and utilizing social networking tools opens your contact list to include new friends from halfway around the world. There is vast potential to meet and befriend other people you would have otherwise never met with the same interests, lifestyle and values as you hold.

In a time before the Internet touched every part of the country, a social network may have been defined as a group of people who shared similar interests or activities. Pictures of ladies chatting around a quilting block or men lounging in a dark den filled with cigar smoke filling the air may come to mind. In those days, one might have said that cigars or quilting squares were the social networking tools in the old days.

Things have dramatically changed and now bumper stickers, small icons, glitter text images, comments, videos and photos are the social networking tools that friends use to contact and bond with one another. You can’t look on a page of your favorite social network without seeing one or more of these tools in play.

By connecting with the world from your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Hi5, Identi.ca and all the other numerous social networks, you are putting yourself in a million different places all at once. But even with the convenience and mobility of the internet, you can still find your dance card too full, so to speak.

So how d you keep up with it all? You may quickly realize that you can’t keep up with all your followers, friends, list and groups. You may find it hard to update all the statuses and comments, let alone reply to all the comments and posts others leave on your profile.

So how do you keep up with the mass of communication, news and information constantly being thrown at you on your social networks? The answer lies in consolidating all your accounts to social networking tools that manage all the feeds and data from your many networks in one convenient account.

Imagine the ease of tweeting, updating your Facebook status, posting a comment on Hi5 and reading the updates of your friends, all from one place.

No, this is not an idea from the future. Free social media tools allow you to manage multiple social network sites in one place. All you have to do is create an account and then sync it with your various social network profiles. And let’s face it, once you have gotten hooked on social networking, you will only find yourself joining more and more of them.

By using a social network management service you will be able to interact and stay current with all of your profiles and accounts.

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When I was a little kid I barely even knew what a computer was. Most of the time, my friends and I were playing outside in the pool, on the playground, or just running around. I used my imagination making up plays that my friends and I would put on for the neighborhood parents, and thinking up scenarios of predicaments my friends and I had to face. Life back then was extremely different from how it is today. Today, my online life is just as active and busy as my regular life. Even though I used to never have to be on the computer, now that I am an adult, work, school, and my social life all make up my online life.

My online life really began around seventh grade when AOL instant messenger came out. Every night I would get online and talk to lots of my friends. Whenever I had a crush on someone I would sit and wait for the little door noise that would announce them being online. If they did get online and start talking to me my heart would race and I would get super excited. Almost all of my classmates had AIM, and I stopped talking to my friends on the phone so much and, instead, talked to everybody on AIM.  I looked forward  to getting online every night and would often be up way later chatting on AIM than I probably should have been.

AIM continued throughout high school, but my online life got even larger as I started having to do research papers. I became familiar with researching topics online and figuring out a good way to find the best sources for my papers. My online life expanded even more as I also began using the internet to find out about news stories, movie times, and pretty much anything I wanted to know.

Even though my online life was pretty busy by this point, the biggest factor in my online life had not yet occurred. When I received my e-mail address for college though, I found out all about Facebook. Facebook, as you probably know, is probably the biggest social network online and has not only affected my online life drastically, but everyone else’s. Facebook became not just a part of my online life, but a huge part of my life in general. I became consumed by it; it had everything. You could check out all the latest updates and photos on your friends, chat, and basically find out anything you wanted to know about anyone who was your Facebook friend.

Once I graduated from college, my online life expanded even more when my job became pretty much internet based. So now, I sit in front of the computer all day not just for my online social life but also for my job. It is rare if I am in front of the computer less than eight hours a day. Considering I am only awake about 16 hours a day, I am spending at least half of my day absorbed in my online life as I am in my life which is not online. With the internet and technology today, I believe that this is going to become the norm for more and more people. I am glad that I have all the opportunities and social experiences in my online life, but I also appreciate personable relationships and situations as well.

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