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Are you an active social media user? Do you have umpteen different online profiles that you want to keep up to date, but that’s just too time consuming? Not to worry! The rise of social networking provoked a fast development of services to manage your social media life. Here is a list of top 5 social network aggregators.

1. Ping.fm – a widely used service that allows you to post from your mobile phone, IMs and email, and third party apps like iGoogle, Facebook, and twhirl. It accepts text and images and soon will even accept videos. Ping.fm supports over 40 social networking sites and more are being added all the time.

2. FriendFeed is becoming increasingly popular. Recently it has undergone a pretty drastic Twitter-like UI change, which made it a lot more popular. Setting up an account takes only a few minutes and using FriendFeed is just like using Twitter. You can access it from the web, a desktop app, iPhone, email, IM, and third party applications.

3. Chi.mp positions itself as a “content hub & identity management platform”. I like the identity management bit – sounds like some sort of psychiatric treatment. But seriously, it’s a very nice service.  Basically, chi.mp gives you your own .mp domain and website, where you can put together your contacts and content – you create your own social hub. You can even control who sees what by creating multiple Personas and controling which content is available for everyone, which one is for your colleagues, and which one is just for your friends. That way you won’t get your boss reading a joke about him that you sent to your friends (that happened to several people I know on Twitter). Chi.mp is still in Beta, but it does look quite promising.

4. Nomee is a real gem. It’s an application that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This application is there to make your social life on the web simpler than ever before. It integrates with over 100 networks and counting, provides you with real-time updates, allows you to group feeds, and has a lot of customization options.

5. Cliqset is a platform that offers users to merge social information and makes it easy to share whatever you like. Developers can use the Cliqset platform to create their own social media apps. You can find the list of already existing applications here. Cliqset is still in Beta.