Well, for this Thing, we're supposed to sign up and explore Goodreads. It looks like a great app that shows what you're reading and will update your friends with the info. I've seen it on a couple of blogs, but, I don't really think it's for me. I'll admit, I can be a girl of a hundred lists, but I'm decidedly 1.0 about it. I tried using Remember the Milk, even integrating it with my gmail, but I gave up on it after a couple of weeks. I prefer to keep lists on paper.
As for books, I keep an Excel file listing the books I've read, when I read them, a rating (1-5), and notes about the book. I can tell you that my reading always slows down towards the end of the summer - I'll go from reading 3-5 books a month, to one or even none. No, it's not very social, as the list lives on my flash drive, but I'm not sure that anyone else would really be interested in my reading choices. I also keep a list of books I own on LibraryThing. Ok, ok, I haven't used my LT account in a while, and the books skew heavily towards anthropology and Latino writers. I essentially quit buying books when I started working for the library. :)
There are so many social networking sites online, I simply don't have time to keep up with all of them. I've resisted joining Facebook, and only set up a MySpace page so I could help the teens fix up their pages. I have a Twitter account that I use, sparingly, am an active newbie on Ravelry, a long time lurker on a couple of scrapbooking sites, and have a LinkedIn account that I check every so often. I just don't have the time to be active on all those sites, much less to add any more!
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It seems that the winds are blowing toward a day when it'll be easier to have a social portal (say, Facebook) and then insert the Facebook app that corresponds to your favorite bucket of other info (Flickr, Goodreads, etc.). That way, you set the account up once and then manage it all back at your social portal.
And then with OpenID, depending on how widely it'll be adopted, you can have just one ID -- kind of a central repository for your personal data, a unique online identity. That way you can use one ID everywhere. Blogger uses it, I believe.
While I like the concept of OpenID, I currently have 3 different accounts that have moved to OpenID. I have my personal Google account, the Google account I set up for this program, and I just received an email that my TypeKey is being rolled in to TypePad and OpenID!!
Really, I just depend on my home computer to prefill all my username/passwords for me. Probably not the best solution, but it works for me.
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