Instant messaging, email and Facebook are all decidedly awesome. You chat will your peeps, get lots of SPAM mail, and eavesdrop on your “friends’” lives via wall posts, photos, and intelligence-bending status updates. All in all it’s a huge chunk…*cough* waste…of time, but you enjoy it. In fact, you may be reading this on Facebook because I’ve set it to automatically import my blog posts as notes and a notification of a new imported note came across your Facebook feed or mini-feed or whatever they now call it. However you’ve come to read this you may now be wondering what this comfortably stout green man to the (upper-)left with no arms, nose or mouth has to do with “social networking.”

I hereby submit to you that Digsby will change your life. He’s an IM client who lets you chat simultaneously on Yahoo, MSN, Google, AIM, and ICQ while also checking all your email accounts (GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, pop, etc) and also serves as a living geiger counter, giving you notifications of all the Facebook tremors and earthquakes. One minute he pops up saying you’ve got a new SPAM mail…which, by the way, you can delete (or Mark as SPAM) directly from the client. The next minute he whispers in your busy little working ear that Susie Sassalot has a new wall post. And what greater joy than when in the next minute you get an IM! That’s Digsby, just flipping his orange lid. Go on, punch his face with your mouse and give him a download. He’ll change your life.