Social web two oh so overloaded

So now Pownce has entered the fray among services like Twitter and Jaiku. Yet another social medium to keep tabs and share with your friends. And then there’s more full-featured services like Facebook, Vox or Virb–I won’t mention the M-word. All have the pros and cons.

They’re social, so you want to keep up with your friends or feel like part of a community. But how do you pick just one? You may have friends partial to one or the other, how do you choose? You might end up trying to update with multiple sites. Which then leads to the overload mentioned in the title. Then you realize you should just stick to email.

This is just like competing IM networks. So I guess we need multi-protocol clients to tackle this problem, like Adium/Trillian/gaim/etc did for IM.