Do you know the drill? Get to a computer...any computer, at home, at work, on your phone...and log in to Twitter. Then Facebook. Then Gmail. Then Reader, then Digg, then Reddit, then so on and so forth, and by the time you get to the end of all the sites/feeds/etc you MUST check, the replies are coming in for the ones you started with! Next thing you know it's an hour later, you're starving, and your cat won't look at you anymore.

Well Lifehacker has an excellent guide for paring down the chatter, uncluttering your social media flow. You can use freely available web tools to "turn the firehose of social media updates into a manageable stream", as they put it in the article quite aptly.

Right now I'm in the "speed-read-and-ignore" camp. What do you do?