I saw an interesting presentation online today on Social Business Design. One of the slides points out that in business today a person must "always be on."

This reminded me of my days in the theatre. Some of the actors that I worked with were the kind of divas who were "always on" - always acting. Expending energy to make everyone - including themselves - that they were among the best in their craft, popular, funny: talented. Many of them crashed, hard. As Elizabeth Gilbert mentions in her Ted talk, an alarmingly high percentage of creative types have a short lifespan.

Before jumping on the bandwagon, have a plan for your career and business social networking. Stick to a schedule or set contextual boundaries.

Ubiquitous computing, omni-present social networks, smartphones, augmented reality - being firm in one's choice to disconnect is critical to sanity.