I feel like I can manage e-mail pretty well, but I don’t have time to check 50 other sites for possible communication. I like the comment about voicemail and e-mail being essential, and all others discretionary; i.e. they may get ignored.
“… there are private messages and comments on social network sites, direct messages and @replies on Twitter. There are blog comments. And RSS feeds. And then there are all of the online communities and bulletin boards and chat spaces that have evolved from those developed in olden days. For me, it’s too much. Too much I tell you. And we haven’t even gotten to voicemail, text messages. Let alone all that’s coming.” – Read it all at apophenia