New Twitter rules: Limit yourself to two tweets per day, and don't auto-follow everyone. Also, don't create endless hashtags for organizing your tweets.

New LinkedIn rules: Keep your professional network to an appropriate size. Don't update what you're doing more than once a day. Don't treat the site as if it were another Facebook.

New rule for StumbleUpon and Digg: Stumble or Digg no more than one item every three days. And never ask me to join your StumbleUpon or Digg network.

Tom Dunlap's e-mail address is tomdunlap222@gmail.com.