8hands is better than 2

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8hands logo I have been trying out the newish social media desktop application, 8hands, for a couple of week or so and give it the thumbs up because it has been saving me time - in some respects at least.*

8hands lets you access your Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, and Twitter accounts from your desktop.
Notification is given of new comments, messages, friend notifications and new videos. You are alerted to these with a pop up message.
Notifications are also viewable from friends avatars in the 8hands window. Clicking on messages takes you to the messenger’s profile.
An archive of messages is also provided, which is handy if you have not logged in for a while, but I do find this slow to load.
You are able to chat with your 8hands friends and share Flickr images and YouTube videos.

I have not had to trawl through emails for notifications but have relied on 8hands instead. I only visit the sites when I know there is some action that I want to take.

* The reason it has only saved me time in some respects is that once on the sites I tend to get sidetracked from tasks at hand - such a writing blog posts and work. I find Facebook to be particularly addictive! Do any of you feel the same way or are are there other social networking sites that have this affect on you?