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Which social media? and why?

I just came across an interesting link about using Twitter for teaching: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-gross/embracing-the-twitter-cla_b_204463.html Somehow I wanted to keep a record and also share this link with others. What social media do I choose and why? Delicious is an obvious one for bookmarking, but this isn't a site that I particularly wish to share with others. Nothing really personal there, but still I like the idea of keeping one of my sites free of interactions. Which leads me to another point: I already feel I have too many communication tools, with messages ariving to me via email (3 v. busy accounts), LinkedIn, and Facebook (which I don't use much). At the moment there's my Ning site too, for an online focus group. I tweetted the link, because I am interested in finding what happens with Twitter. I just started yesterday, and it's really through using it that I'll get a sense of using it for teaching and for professional reasons. It's nic...