Its all gone a bit social

Unless you have been in a cave for the last 5 years you will have probably noticed the whole social networking thing. There is also an un-said opinion that forums are, to some degree, old tech and the conversations that people were having on forums 10 years ago are now happening on facetwittertubeplusspace. To mitigate this I now have the following "social" options available to me:

• Facebook login
• Facebook likes
• Facebook publishing of threads, posts, blogs, articles etc
• Likes system (vbseo)
• Tweetboard (vbseo)
• Google+ (custom mod)
• VB Social Bookmarking
• VB Social Bookmarking (vbseo)
• Probably something else I have forgotten about

My question is, how do you guys manage the combination of these things on your forums? For the reasons mentioned above I am keen to integrate with the social sites - however I am also keen to avoid plastering my site with a kaleidoscope of like buttons.

Then there is another question, like all things in forum administration there is a balancing act, enable FB, disable twitter - FB users happy, twitter users not so happy. Enabled everything and have the kaleidoscope, disabled everything are slowly die a social death.

So, what do you have enabled? Do your members make use of them?

I think it's just about using what you feel your users will, I love VBSEO's sharing, because it's hidden but I also don't know many of my users that use Reddit, delicious etc. but everyone uses twitter and facebook.

It really depends on your community. for my site, Facebook is popular, and no one uses twitter at all. So, you really need to match your demographic of what people use.

Facebook likes is in trends now a days and everyone is looking forward for it. Every community there , wants more and more liked with their profiles.