An easy way to monitor all of your social networking sites using only your browser.

This is a simple technique that you can use to keep an eye on your social networking sites, news sites, a blog, or anything else running on the Web.

Please bear that in mind that this is not a substitute for tools that watch the net. It is not. This is a quick and simple way to keep all of your accounts active and ready for instant use.

Let's say that you have accounts at Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, a blog, and like to keep CNN active. These sites are only examples, this works for anything running on the Web that is browser accessible.  

1. Open your favorite browser and then open any of your accounts. Let's say that you open Twitter.
2. Now, open another tab in the browser. In ID8 click File then New Tab, or hold down the Control key and press the T key. This will open another Tab.
3. In the Tab you just opened log into another account, let's say LinkedIn.
4. Open a third Tab, and log into Facebook.
5. If you like CNN, you can open another Tab and open CNN there.
6. If you use a blog, open another Tab and bring up your blog.

Now, this will work fine. However, depending on your browser and the sites you have open you may find that after a week or two things get a little crazy. If that happens, simply close the tags giving you trouble and log back into that account. It's just that your cookies, the files that keep track of stuff in the background. They need to be refreshed.

To do your Internet realted tasks, you may want to open a new browser window. There you can surf, search, and play to your heart's content without disturbing the window with your social sites in it. Or, you can just doo all of that in anothe Tab. Up to you.

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