I have friends, family, colleagues (in company and in ecosystems) that have profiles in multiple places. I’ve had several cooleagues that comment that it’s “tough to keep up” with e-mail, voice mail, text mail and the like for home and work accounts at the same time there are all these additional streams of communication and content to manage.
And then there are those, who are very web savvy who won’t event sign up because they do indeed know that to do it right (as in keep up to speed on all their accounts) they will spend far too much time online “we’re there all week at work, why would we want to give up family time, time at the gym or heaven forbid, time for quiet contemplation about how it all fits together”. I’m of the school that it is more fun to learn, absorb and play with the cool newness in the early stages so that we can all learn together. I don’t think I will ever be able to be “connected enough”to suit the past mindset that I must have “returned all calls and e-mails and posts, and messages and friend requests and invitations by the end of each day. The transaction cycles and membranes of the pieces of our lives are all shifting, in real time. Children in elementary school will see all of this as “just part of the deal” just as those of us that grew up with radios, televisions, telephones, pong, and commodor vic 20s amazed our parents at our ability to “take it in stride”.

Those that wade in and learn as they go, will be far more able to participate in the continuously changing coversation in my world view.
In my future dream state, I will have one personal portal that allows me to wade into all the “virtual parts”of my life that connnect to the “physical parts of my life” A very cool time we’re in. It would seem we are in a period of “communication/collaboration rennaissance enabled by the new science and art of the web” Loving every minute of it. Andy