Why wait for Spring? The New Year is the perfect time to clean up and clean out your social networks!

Clean up - it means different things based on context. Social network clean up is about removing dead weight, be it contacts or entire network profiles, subscriptions or even what you publish. Accumulating new contacts, signing up for new feeds, and adding networks is easy to done and often done without though of future removal.

You're likely making hundreds of additions or more in a year. How many do you delete?

How about some clean up steps to get you started? A few easy tips follow:

• Facebook
  • Remove unused applications
    • Bonus - block them as well
  • Remove groups
  • Remove contacts
    • Remove those who have no wall posts
    • Remove those who you share no interests with
      • This is easier if you've removed unwanted apps and groups
    • Remove anyone you don't know or recognize
• Twitter
  • Remove zero contributors
    • If they only tweet links to their blog, just subscribe to their blog - unfollow
    • If they only tweet get (rich, followers, etc) quick - unfollow
    • If they have no replies to anyone - unfollow
  • Remove unwanted junk contributors
    • If they tweet about porn and you're not into that - unfollow
    • If they constantly tweet pictures and no text - unfollow
    • If they use a lot of hate speech - unfollow
  • Remove bots (self explanatory)
• Other networks - Should you stay?
  • Do you follow people here in a way you can't follow them elsewhere?
  • Do you create content here you can't create or share from anywhere else?
  • Is this the only network your family can use?
  • Is it the only place you can connect with people you must keep in contact with?

Realize Other Networks recommended for review should include LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and more. Don't cut yourself any slack.

Bonus: unsubscribe from any emails you don't read at least twice a week. Do this step now!

I've already begun this process by unsubscribing from several mailings. Facebook contacts are already being paired down. Twitter contacts get screened at addition but I have another bonus tip there - create a private Probation list. Add folks to this list when you follow them if you suspect they might be trouble.

Go.Cleanup.Smile. - What are your clean up tips?

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