From 2001 to 2009 I had only a single unused facebook account. Now I have http://twitter.com/robertpateii, http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertpateii, http://www.facebook.com/robertpateii, and an encrypted journal. Oh I also have wordpress installed on my own server, and another install on my girlfriend’s domain, and of course various forums. All these services do the same way but in different ways: they let me talk to one or more people without having to call them on the phone.
I refuse to use all the different services all the time though. I need one portal where I can just speak and be able to select where those words go. My plan is to make wordpress that portal and find, tweak, or code plugins to give me the rest. One of the major features I was planning to get my butt kicked trying to code was post visibility . . . which it looks like has already been added to wordpress since the last time i logged in. Awesome!