The beauty of “Less Is More” in Twitter and Blogging

I’ll keep this post simple.

After blogging since June 2007, I have come to realize that I can almost never be able to blog daily unless this becomes my full-time job one day.

After  twittering for quite a while (I have no idea when I started my first tweet), I have come to realize that I can only talk to so many twitter friends.

After subscribing greedily to so many blogs on my Google Reader since June 2007, I can never finish reading so many blogs.

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Many of you may already know that it is not possible to do so many things on a daily basis.  Especially in this time of information overload, we must be selective to get the things that we want in our Internet life.

Choose your favorites

There are so many choices for you to pick.  It can be really hard to decide what to choose.  And “everything” is usually the choice.  However, “everything” will usually mean “nothing concrete to gain” in the end.

1) Follow your twitter friends wisely because it will affect what you are going to tweet about, and thus you will eventually build a stronger community of followers!

2) Subscribe to the blogs which you will most likely give your 2 cents’ worth of comments.

3) Blog a post only when you have something to talk about.

Stronger community awaits you

As you focus more and more on doing a few things only, you will start to see a bigger picture of those few things that you have been doing.  You will eventually establish a web archival of yourself doing certain things in life.  You will be associated heavily with the niche you want to be with (because of the law of attraction).

Bad habit of getting more and not less

It is not easy to be selective when you have most of the things which are equally good.  I would think that it may be still wise to choose all of them, but only the successful people are willing to choose one and let go of the rest.

Having said so, I am falling into this trap myself with too many feeds to read on my Google.  I tried to unsubscribe as many feeds as possible till I found Adage which provides one big list of credible bloggers to subscribe.

Can any of you – who follows probably a few thousand friends in twitter – really keep in touch your friends more than me who follows less than 1k right now?  By the way, it’s already quite hard to keep track for me and I must admit that the number will definitely exceed 1000 one day!

When I first started blogging, I can blog around 5 posts every day!  On some days, all the posts are really good (That’s what I think!). But I must also admit that some of them are probably not that good because I am trying to keep in trend of having 5 posts a day!  As such, I tried to embed videos on some posts when I get lazy with my postings… As years gone by, I have decided to set a pace of posting when I have a topic to start with while trying to keep a frequency of at least once a week.  And it happens that I can manage my blog better!

I think that’s where the 80/20 rule applies.  It speaks about focusing only 20% of your effort, and get 80% in results!