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I realized today that I’ve hit my limit with fan pages, Facebook pages, Networked blogs, Six Degrees of Social Media Separation and/or Togetherness, over-embellished status updates and tweets about oatmeal.

It’s not that I don’t love, admire and stand in awe of all the folks who are able to micromanage all these updates, groups, 2.0 togetherness…it’s more that I need a break from it.

Oh, I’ll keep updating and you won’t see me gone from LinkedIn and my tweets will still keep their busy tweetyness, but I’m feeling a powerful urge to at least block all the group invitations and other social 2.0 shenanigans from my purview for awhile.

Here are the five things I will do today:

1. I’m turning off the computer and I’m going to see “Funny People,” a movie that I know will make me cry, just so I can feel real tears streaming down my face instead of searching the keyboard for how to make the perfect sad emoticon :>( .

2. I’m going to actually walk outside and take a deep breath of fresh air, instead of participating in a challenge on how long I can virtually hold my breath on YouTube.

3. I’m unjoining these groups, “Join Us to Feel as Though You Belong”, “Fans of Library Books and How they Smell”, “Moms Who Never Make Cookies from Scratch.”

4. I’m going to wash my face and put on some lipstick and change out of my Big Lebowski, “the Dude minds” shirt.

5. I’m going to stop tweeting whilst driving and start trying to write in longhand in more than 140 characters. Wait I have to buy pens first from the office store.

What are You going to DO?