Hello my name is Clayton and I’m an addict. I can’t stop signing up for social networks. It seems like everyday a new web service or social network is launched and I feel the need to join. Why? Don’t know but I think it some kind of sickness.

I don’t use most of the things I join and those I do use I don’t do anything important. They all seem to become time sinks. After much discussion with my wife I’ve decided to try a new approach to using my time. Why spend tons of time conversing with people I’ll never meet when I have real live friends right here that I could spend more time with? So that’s what I’m going to do. Here is a list of the services that are being cut from my life:

Twitter
Vimeo
Britekite
Several Podcasts
Ustream
Stickam
virb
friend feed

I will be keeping:

Pownce (micro blogging/friends)
Flickr (photo sharing)
Facebook (social network)
iLike (music network)

I don’t know why anyone needs all of those services but we gather them up like they are going out of style. For me I think I had this desire for my 10 minutes of fame. I know I’m never going to be a movie or tv star so I gave being a Internet Superstar a shot but really I didn’t try very hard and I’ve discovered that it requires more time than I am willing to invest. Coming out of this journey I realize how really stupid it all is. We get more and more “conveniences” in our lives but we never have more time. It feels good to know what’s going on in “The Tubes” but I sure don’t need hands on experience with everything out there. So I’m making a change toward simplicity, and I know I’ve tried this before but as I keep coming back to this conclusion it must be the right one.

PLease no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots

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This Christmas season our theme at Real Life Community Church is “The Christmas Machine”. Pastor Dana will be discussing the disease of consumerism that plagues us as a nation.

Through out this season we will be partnering with several organizations to bring this problem to light and to do something about it. And by doing something about it we don’t mean just for one sunday. We need to change our patterns of living and what we find as important and necessary.

The 2 organizations we are working with are:

This can be a life changing time of year and in my opinion it should be. Please join with us in changing the world.