How much time to spend on social networking?

[oregongal]

How much time do you spend on social networking? And do you have a favorite site that brings you the most traffic?

Just looking for some opinions or experiences with different sites.
Thanks

[Linda Buquet]

That's a tough one. I've cut back to almost 0 time now. The only one I'm doing is Twitter and I've only recently started being a twit. Never got much traffic from any of the other social networks, but maybe I didn't have enough time or didn't try hard enough.

[oregongal]

I did a review of one of my blogs on StumbleUpon recently and got a big surge of traffic - that didn't last. It was kind of interesting though. I find StumbleUpon too big to be that interesting to me.

[Linda Buquet]

I just got a big blast of Stumble traffic today from my blog post about Amazon suing the state of New York due to affiliate-driven sales tax. I've bought Stumble traffic too. Bad thing is people only stay on your page for a second and leave - never do anything else for the most part.

[analyzed]

Hey the main social sites I focus on are stumbleupon, Digg, and most recently Twitter. They have all provided a decent amount of traffic, but nothing too extraordinary. The good thing about StumbleUpon and Digg is that you don't have to spend too much time on them themselves other than submitting your Diggs and Stumbles.

As per time spent, I have been spending the most time on twitter now, just to provide updates. But overall I would say about an hour and a bit a day would be sufficient. Just do your best to build some quality relationships with others and you should be good.

[MarketLeverage]

I would guess around 6 hours of my day are spent on social networking. I have recently seen an increased amount of traffic from Twitter. It is nice to see my updates on Twitter start to pay off!