OK, I know it’s my fault for “being present in the moment” I don’t see how some actions affect those around me until I see the results of my actions. When I first started using Twitter, I thought it was cool to automatically update my Facebook Status with my tweets. I   soon learned Facebook and Twitter are two different animals.

Twitter is a river while Facebook is a fishbowl.

On Twitter I carry on multiple conversations and can even get lost when someone doesn’t give me a clue what they’re commenting on. Friends on Facebook saw this stream of consciousness in the fishbowl of life and made even less sense with it – never mind the language shortcuts you take with on 140 characters to work with.

I’ll go on Facebook every couple of days to catch up with people. I occasionally update my status from Tweetdeck and automate my blog posts so some people think I’m on a lot more than I am.

It’s the blog posts that I’m worried about now and it’s all because “in the moment” I found something cool and thought I’d give it a go.

I found out I could import my blog posts to my notes. Here’s how:

1) In the “Applications” menu (in the bottom bar), choose “Notes.”
2) Under “Notes Settings,” click on “Import a blog”
3) Type in the URL of your blog and make sure to check the mini-EULA
4) At the bottom of the preview, click on “Confirm Import”

And that’s it — your blog is now available to all your Facebook friends and family.

Great… except Facebook used to be my #1 source for traffic to my site. That was back when I used ping.fm to update the Facebook status. One day I found it could also update the notes… forgetting of course I was already doing that.

Finally I found Networked blogs – which is a great source for connecting with other blogs who want to get found…they also post my blog posts to my wall.

That’s 3 posts to facebook for every 1 post I do… I may be forgetting Aweber… no that’s set to post to Twitter when the weekly email goes out.

Suffice it to say, my fishbowl is stuffed. I have friends on facebook commenting on facebook about my blog posts and I know I’ve turned off email notifications of comments because it was just too much for someone who is as easily distracted as I am.

I can turn off ping.fm no problem… that leaves two. I like using NetworkedBlogs because it’s a decent way to connect with bloggers. I have no idea how to turn off an imported RSS feed in Facebook — excellent, found the answer here I guess I can post this blog without blanketing my wall with it.

Which is good, because I’m working on some real fun posts today. You’ll need to catch them when they’re posted.