Wednesday Website - Ping.fm

If you are like me, you joined various social networking websites when different groups of friends invited you. And at first it was manageable, keeping up with your work friends on Linkedin.com, your social friends on twitter, your mmorpg friends on Plurk, your high school friends on Facebook, but then you suddenly realize it’s become a task to post your updates. You want to share what is going on but good grief is it still fun when you have to log in here there and everywhere to repeat information? Thus Ping.fm enters the scene.

Ping brings the ability to update to more than 35 social networking websites including the big guns listed above, as well as Microblogging to WordPress and Blogger. You can post via SMS as well, texting info that then will shoot out to your designated update sites. I’m pretty addicted to using it for short bursts of info that I want/need to share. It converts info over 140 characters and links to a hyperlink that will take your viewers where they need to go to see the info.

Ping also offers apps for more robust mobile usage for a minimal fee but I’m good with my sturdy old SMS. It’s free to join so check out simplifying your social networking updates.

Written by Gidge, who is a mother of a 5 year old boy and 3 year old twin boys. A transplanted Hoosier, die-hard Colts fan and professional call center manager, she likes long walks on the beach, penguins and playing ping-pong. Her turn-ons include sleep and silence. Read all about her life here.