To plurk or to twitter, that is the question?

I’ve signed up for quite a few social networking sites over the past several months. I feel that if I am going to recommend social media marketing to my clients, I need to have first-hand experience. One of the sites that is the most difficult for me to stay up on is Twitter.  It’s designed as a way for you to convey to your ‘social network’ what you are doing, or where you are, on an hour-by-hour basis throughout the day.

My family would tell you that I am fairly fanatical (read: obsessive) about being online, but I’m not quite ready to record my daily comings and goings on an hourly basis for the world to see.

Tonight I logged on to Twitter.com to update my “What are you doing?” page and one of my ‘friends’ (who, by the way, I have never met and not sure I will ever meet) told me I should be doing plurk.com.  So, obliging to my ‘friend,’ I went over to take a look at plurk. I found a chart comparing the pro’s and con’s of plurk versus twitter.  Twitter came out on top.

So I guess I’ll stick with Twitter as frequently as I can. I also update my “doings” on linkedin.com and facebook.com where I also have profiles. I have a profile on myspace.com too but I’m afraid to tell you I don’t go there very often.

So the question I’d like you to answer is this:  do you think it’s better to have profiles on many sites and dabble in many sites, or is it better to go ‘all out’ on a few sites and to be thorough on a few?  For those people who have nothing else to do, I guess they can be on many, many sites at once but for those of us who have a job, kids, and community obligations, I think it’s better to be thorough about a few of the social networking sites.