With all the focus on the diminishing attention and the general availability of time in my life, I spent some time itemizing what I do and throwing it into a spreadsheet, just to get an idea of how much time I’m investing in social media.

That sleep bar continues to shrink – can’t be good.

Legend:

• Travel – Commute, Air travel
• Friends – Directly engaged and interacting in person
• Family – Engaged as a dad, husband, son, brother, uncle, cousin
• TV – Various – family overlay most of the time
• Sleep – dreaming, REM, tossing, turning
• Email – Personal – private, Personal – public, Spam, Work
• Social Media – Reading, writing, searching, thinking, posting
• Work – Thinking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, speaking
• Meetings – Listening, learning, sharing, watching, talking

So I’m on the lookout for a new productivity tool for social media and this whole FriendFeed is a great candidate for my new social interface. Can’t imagine the time slice of social media Chris Brogan, Aaron Brazell or Erin Kotecki Vest have on their spreadsheets, I bet their sleep bar is considerably smaller than mine.