In preparation for the launch of this website, I did a lot of pruning and cleaning of the various social network sites of which I am a member. As you would expect, the more involved in any particular social network, the more connections I made. Inevitably, responding to the amount of communication within my networks has started to become an enormous time suck.

This is obviously not an uncommon problem. Lifehacker pointed me in the direction of Steve Rubel’s use of Gmail to consolidate his social networking communications.

What he doesn’t mention is how he deals with e-mail clutter.