Digital Diet March 2012: Less is more

Posted in Cloud Computing, Communication, My Journey

The past few years, I’ve had several moments where I literally felt suffocated under the enormous pressure of having all kinds of social media profiles, instant messengers, etc. I’m not saying none of it works; but I am saying it eats up too much of MY time. So I’m initiating a new digital diet, cause less is more.

Removed my Facebook fanpages (due to timeline announcement)
Removed a lot of privacy sensitive information on FaceBook
Close my Microsoft Live ID (byebye MSN messenger)

1. Visit

2. Sign in using your Windows Live Hotmail account and password.

3. Click “Close account” button.

removed my gravatar profile (actually you cannot remove it, so hiding it)
removed tungle.me profile (not using it at the moment)

To completely delete your Tungle account, write to support@tungle.com

removed my twitter profile (not using it much), and no longer care for SEO
disabled google chat
disabled google+ (it’s a powerful community, but haven’t had time to look at it)

1. Visit account settings (so not google+ link)

2. Scroll to bottom, and click link “Delete profile and Google+ features”

3. Chose Delete google+ content option

To focus more time at:

answering emails in my inbox (decrease response time to 24hours instead of weeks)
Skype (for networking)
Facebook (for networking)
LinkedIN (for networking … although I’m thinking about removing it as well)

Update 21 March 2012: Yup, removed LinkedIN + about.me as well

Update 22 March 2012: redirected rhyker2u.com to My Google Profile Page

Update 27 March 2012: gotta say … life has been AMAZING after the digital diet (and didn’t think it would be). Much more clarity, and being focused on just a few tools and using them to their full potential, productivity has increased to an amazing new level!