Drowning in Pinterest and Twitter Profiles While Stumbling through Stumbleupon

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Over the weekend I joined a bunch of new blogging support groups on Facebook. I"ve been checking them out one or two at a time. I now belong to forty of them. No, I'm not active in all of them all the time. Each has strengths and weaknesses. These past two days I've been concentrating on building up my following on Pinterest and Twitter and getting more views on Stumbleupon. After looking at about 80 Pinterest boards and a like number of Twitter profiles, I've decided I'm definitely not hip. I'm old and out of it. Or, perhaps, people just aren't being real. There are more Mommy bloggers, travel bloggers, food bloggers, guru bloggers, and fashion bloggers than I can count. So far I haven't seen any old lady bloggers. That's probably where I would fit. I just can't think of anything really catchy to put on my profile in 25 words or less to attract followers. I'm not a guru of anything. I'm not a mover of mountains, a queen of the kitchen, "a chicken wrangler," a "brand ambassador," "an introvert with awesome hair," foodie, adventure seeker, or "inkfluencer & emoji aficionado." Maybe you friends who know me best can suggest some catchy and hip phrases I can use on my profiles that don't stretch the truth. Or is that what it's all about? After having my eyes glaze over while looking at about 80 Pinterest profiles, they all begin to look alike, and not so much like mine. Truly, am I the only person who doesn't have detailed boards on Disney, fashion, beauty, bling, fitness, and twenty different food boards? Everyone pins, but I wonder how many people really click through and read all that pinned information? Why, you may ask, was I looking at all this? Two of the groups I joined had threads where you share your profile and then follow 15 other profiles. I did one for Twitter and one for Pinterest. There were 60-80 on each thread so far. I finished my 15 for each, but the thread is open for another few days, I'm sure they will have at least a hundred posts before they close. At least some choice was involved. The Stumbleupon thread was reciprocal. You could post one link and then Stumble all the other links on the thread. There were 62 of them before the thread closed. AS a result, I have gotten more decent follows on both Pinterest and Twitter and some Stumbleupon exposure for two blog posts. However, after this intense foray into the social media, starting my taxes almost looks good. I hope I really do start them tomorrow. I find it difficult to believe that the owners of these Pinterest boards are as interested as they seem in all the stuff they have boards about. There are probably a few besides me that include a few boards to accommodate the pins they are obligated to pin in exchange for others pinning their work. Thus, I have a board called "Wear it" on which to pin the fashion and jewelry and make-up posts I have to pin. I'm not really interested in any of them. It's also almost mandatory to have boards for crafts and DIY -- maybe lots of them if you are into crafting yourself. Do you Stumble, Pin or Tweet or all three? Which networks give you the best return for the investment of your time? And if you had to come up with some catchier words for my profile, what would they be? What are the topics of Pinterest boards you look for first on someone else's profile?