I don't want to know when you're going to sleep or if you sweated up a storm in your latest workout. I don't want to hear about your baby's poop habits, or the tiff with the neighbor. On social networks I want five things.

While we fuel our social networks with content like programming a television network, we sometimes forget that physical interaction can solve the challenges before us.

We're not always going to be interested in everything your friends share, think or create, especially when the definition of a Facebook "friend" is becoming blurry. Facebook has become a bit of a social shopping mall -- something for everyone, but not everything someone may want.

Twitter has often been like an online faculty lounge where I get control over who stays in the room and who has to leave. That may sound cruel but that's the way social networks work.

Since social media is here to stay, event organizers who truly embrace the notion of the greater good, which is the purpose of all of this social stuff anyway, can enhance the experience by establishing and promoting twitter hashtags and handles.

The ubiquitous rise in "Best Of's" is baffling. In an attempt to help myself remember what to look for, and mentally manage some of the online clutter, I am sharing my top 5 tips.

Twitter can be an intimidating jumble of # symbols, RTs, DMs, @'s, and other code-like shorthand to a Twitter newbie. To help get the hang of it, we...