Recently the only social media sites that I've been focused on have been Twitter, Facebook, and Posterous. At the moment these three sites have suited my needs to a point that I've forgotten about the vast majority of the other social media sites that I belong to.  I figured it would be a great time to revisit those sites that are collecting dust and see where I can trim the social media fat from my online routine.

Next up on the chopping block is Tumblr.

In the marketplace of what you might call a light-weight blogging platforms, Tumblr was the first on the scene to make it dead simple to start and maintain a blog.  I was hooked right off the bat when I heard about the Tumblr platform.  Blogging was dead simple and I loved the avante garde community that started to grow there.

I then heard about Posterous, Tumblr's main competitor to dead simple blogging.  I'm always open to trying out new things and decided to give Posterous a shot.  Well, it's been several months now since I've been on Posterous and I have to say that I haven't looked back at all.  Tumblr is just a memory to me now and I'm looking forward to a service that just does it better.

Here are several reasons why Posterous is far superior to Tumblr.

Posting
Creating a blog post is dead simple and much easier than what Tumblr offers.  You don't even have to sign up for an account.  All you need to do is send an email to post@posterous.com and you’re done.

Community
If you like to look at Polaroid photographs or hear some cliché poetry, Tumblr might be the place for you. However, I'm looking for something beyond that and that's where Posterous is successful. The community that Posterous has built is amazing and I'm always learning something new from the people I subscribe to.

Posterous also succeeds in making it extremely easy for me to participate in the community that they've built. Although I love the Tumblr community, the tools that exist there are cumbersome at best. They make it hard to find any valuable content and participate in that community beyond re-blogging other people's posts.

Auto-Posting
This is where Posterous wins hands down.  The Auto-Posting features that are offered by Posterous are amazing and allow me to distribute my content to a variety of other platforms, which in turn saves me a ton of time and effort. Unless something that changed, Tumblr didn't offer much in this area other than posting to Twitter.

Tumblr is a decent service; however the service that Posterous provides is far superior and I predict will go much farther in the Social Media landscape.

Where can you trim the Social Media Fat from your internet life?