There is no doubt in my mind that Social Media (for most) can be exhausting. You have Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, Tweeter – no wait… Twitter, Linkedin, Digg, Squidoo, Friendster, Ning, Bacon Lettuce Cheese Special Sauce On a Seasame Seed bun! … wait

While you’re learning to tweet with your Tweeples and trying to decipher the hottest new techspeak – (”What’s a vlog?!”) You’re already… passe.

Here’s a few pointers on How to Use Social Media & SIMPLIFYING your Social Media Routine:

1. Use Tools To Save You Time
There are programs out there to save you time and energy in chatting with people and adding friends to your social media pages. These programs like TweetDeck, TwitterFriend Adder, TubeBlaster Pro – are Godsends for me! I don’t have time to sit and add a new friend every 10 minutes …by Tubeblaster does it for me. And TweetDeck? It manages all of my status updates, @replies, and DM’s for Twitter.

2. Focus On High-Impact Messages
Keep your messages concise and only utilize high-impact content. Post news related to your industry… share useful links… post things that are funny and inspirational, with intriguing inside information about your business.
This will reduce your TOTAL communication and make you much more appreciate by your following. Sending out random, useless information will be construed as spam and downright annoying.

3. Don’t Read Everything – Just Scan
Scan through status updates, videos, and posts …zeroing in on things that are important to you or that you’d like to give feedback on.

4. Pick a Few – Discard The RestUnless you are a full time Social Media marketer, you probably don’t have time to spend all day on every major SM site. So pick a few that offer the most value to you and discard the rest. For me, it’s YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Maybe your more of a Myspace person? That’s cool… Your choices will be different. But in the end, be selective and guard your time wisely.

5. Manage Your Time Wisely
Schedule Social Media into your day planner. Got 10 minutes every morning? Or how about a half hour M-W-F? But be sure to have boundaries – the rest of your life should be held sacred too.