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In the last MacCast, a podcast about all things Macintosh with Adam Christianson, he asked his listeners to send him a note with their iPhone web usage to do an informal poll. I went to my online AT&T account and screen-print my usage for April for Adam, he just replied to me saying, “Wow you are serious user.”

I started thinking about my data usage and I’m not that bad, I think. My data usage is mostly to check my emails, my NetNewsWire Online account, my bank account, and occasionally to check on news articles, prices for stuff I’m thinking on getting, and playing Bejeweled from PopCat. There is other stuff that I do, but they fall in the rarely used sections so is not worth even to mention them.

Even with all the use I had during the month of April I manage to stay under 300MB, I think that the site that uses most of this bandwidth is NetNewsWire. When I’m checking my RSS entries I notice that most of them have some sort of image attached to it, some of the feeds that I follow are from photo related websites which normally would take a big chunk of bandwidth.

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On a recent episode of Mac Roundtable and Victor’s Typical Mac User podcast, they started talking about social networking sites, again. They raised their voice explaining how social networking sites are a waste of time, and some are calling it “bacon” to the fact that you are spammed by your own friends with request to join new social network ideas that pops up almost on a weekly basis. I hate to do this, I’m 30 years old, and I know what is worth waste my time on and what not.

During the whole conversation, I felt like I should have been there to explain why social networking sites are not for everybody but at the same time is something that everybody should be aware. A podcaster that gets this the way I do is Mitch Joel from Six Pixels of Separation take your time to listen to him to understand what is going on with social networking sites. Social networking sites are a great tool to advertise who you are and what you do, there are so many of them that if you where to join and update them all on a daily basis you will go crazy.

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