Managing multiple profiles

Are you still able to count the number of all your social media profiles? Now, in this moment? Oh, you are running out of fingers...

The social media landscape is steadily growing, every day new platforms are launched and the established ones are growing and growing. Most people are not satisfied anymore with just one social media profile. One on facebook, one on linkedIn, further profiles on flickr, twitter, YouTube, myspace, last.fm and ten to twenty other platforms. Managing them is almost a full-time job. But on the other hand keeping your image is important. Old pictures, some really terrible party impressions from your high school time and dozen of unread messages from offended friends might damage your image sooner or later.

But several profile-managing tools provide support for social networking addicts. Here we show you the most effective and popular tools that help you to keep track of all accounts:

Ping.fm

This tool is one of the most famous and an easy to use assistant. Over 40 social medial websites are currently supported, others are continuously added. Ping.fm is a free service and enables you to update your profiles all at the same time with just one click. This saves a lot of time you need usually to update every social network individually. Besides useful applications for your iPhone, AIM or Yahoo Messenger, ping.fm also offers a feature that shortens URLs automatically for easier posting to Twitter.

Minggl

With Minggl you can manage and interact with all your contacts using just one interface. The application includes features like status updates, friend categories and private messages. Minggl stores all your login info for each social networking website and allows you to send status updates or tweets directly within seconds from its interface. Furthermore, you can update as many social sites as you would like to at one time without visiting each site separately. Minggl supports currently the six main social media platforms but claims more support in the future. This tool will for sure become more popular in the next year because of its great functionality.

FriendFeed

FriendFeed is the biggest tool at the moment for managing your social networking accounts. It supports over 50 different platforms. It allows you to share your content with your friends from multiple social networks and gives you even the chance to group them in e.g. business contacts, close friends or family. Public and private settings are available and you can integrate it with blogs and websites.