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Wikipedia word of the day is infobesity : (informal) Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results from it”) Today is the International Day for Universal Access to Information, which is recognized by the United Nations to emphasize the importance of public access to information.
infobesity : (informal) Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results from it”) Today is the International Day for Universal Access to Information, which is recognized by the United Nations to emphasize the importance of public access to information.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infobesity#English
infobesity : (informal) Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results from it”) Today is the International Day for Universal Access to Information, which is recognized by the United Nations to emphasize the importance of public access to information.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infobesity#English
infobesity : (informal) Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results from it”) Today is the International Day for Universal Access to Information, which is recognized by the United Nations to emphasize the importance of public access to information.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infobesity#English
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Are you deluged by data? A Reflection Paper
In today’s era of technology, the trend of using gadgets is expanding, the use of social media sites is increasing, and the absorption of the new technologies is escalating. The intensifying result of this rapid change is the multiplying numbers of data we created and absorb. But, the risk of having the bad data habit of some individual might increase. As revealed in the video, some of the people are really deluged by data. The question is are you one of them? Are you infected?
Yes, definitely, I am deluged by data, because since I engaged in the digital world, I was like trying to quench my thirst by being part of this era and being one of the people curious about what was this thing has or this century have. It was all started when I am in Grade 9, when my mom bought me my first android smartphone as a reward for my academic excellence. Since then I started to take a picture everywhere, every time and at every moment. I started to be engaged in such social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. But I am totally get addicted with Facebook. Aside of those, I obtain such a large number of data to suffice my wants and needs or in short, my thirst like downloading pictures of everything I imagine and wanted. As I remember, those are images from the Divergent movie and other beautiful girls I saw in the image’s sites. I am really sure that our school Wi-Fi plays a big role to this bad habit. The habit continues and increase in the higher years especially when I reached Grade 10. Where most of our activities and moments happened is captured and recorded. From quizzes, performance, group pictures, group bonding, relationships, the school itself, awarding, people and many more are all captured. When higher years came, obsession in taking pictures and downloading media takes a slow improvement. Maybe, this is because of my education focus motive and new lifestyle. Senior High School years to me is projects and school performance focused because of the need of time and heavy tasks. Also, my phone got broken because it falls to a hard surface ground and needed to be fixed to be used again and I am actually defining this as the main reasons why I made my bad habits rarely. After that scene, my focus shifted to the usage of Facebook where I honestly revealed that I get addicted with.
I really feel and understand **torontoluck **of her habit in taking pictures time by time. Also, I get hooked with what Digital Organizer Daina Makinson said that “the more photos you have, the harder they are to find.” She is totally right I experience this when my teacher asks me to send her the photos happened on the day we have the activity and unfortunately it has months passed, and I have thousands of photos to scroll and look at it each by each. But, of all those bad digital habits I’m glad that I did not fail with my subjects but just get have a hard time in complying each.
As I remembered, infobesity is also known as Information Overload and as what the people experience in the video, yes, I have suffered with it. Now, I am working on it to manage the information I have absorbed.
It started in my recent years in high school, but not that worst as the people in the video have experienced, when I am hunger with knowledge just to satisfy people’s expectation. I studied a lot of things, I read a lot of books and information and I watched lots of informative videos. Because of my eagerness to gain knowledge, I never noticed that I am spending my whole time with it, I sleep every 1 AM in the morning and skipped some of my meals. Even my mom scolded me about it. After a week of doing it, I felt confused and always distracted of the things I always say, and I have observed it like what happened to me during my reporting in class, I am reading my visual aid, but I can’t explain it well and I get stammered even if I am not used to it. So, then I conclude that I may have an Information Overload where my brain can’t process and absorb the information because it is simultaneous, no breaks, and as a result confusion eaten me with sleepless nights.
Speaking in technology, I guess just last month, I experience information overload in my Gmail account when I subscribe to more than a hundred of pages and channels which result to a bunch of emails, I received every day. The worst here is I get a hard time in finding the emails of my teacher to me and the important emails as well. So, after my task and projects I decided to clean my Gmail and unsubscribe to most of the sites, pages and channels.
I am really sure that I need a digital diet. A way of consuming the technology in a healthy way. I need to be wise now and be smarter to face this struggle and disconnect with the bad data habit. I need to take and absorb these technologies in a healthy way where I cannot harm myself, my relationship with my family and friends, and my good habits. I need also to lessen this engagement in technologies and social media sites. Actually, I am doing it a long time ago but in a gradual way to slowly absorb the change by my body. I lessen the time I spend with Facebook and Online games. I am more with bonding with friends, family and even my pets, which is one of my stress relievers. Everything really works fine and well. Just disconnect to reconnect with myself totally.
Speaking of disconnecting, yes this is what I really want, I’m sure, and I gradually do it now. Of course, when you disconnect with your devices, you will feel the real happiness and life, you will feel the nature and you will feel yourself by not measuring your heartbeat or mood but by letting them flow in your body and do what it wants.
Disconnecting with your devices in today’s era of technology and rapid spread of information is totally hard. You may go into process and actions that your body might have a hard time in absorbing it. As I watched the last part of the video, I truly see people’s true happiness and others still experiencing Phantom Phone Syndrome. I really love the idea of the Camp Grounded Summer Camp, and I hope we have here in the Philippines, because they are teaching the adults to put away their gadgets and to reconnect in real life. Also, the Digital Decontamination where they are removing the gadgets in the hands of the adults. The whole set-up of the Camp Grounded is really fit to the people nowadays, from the simple jobs likes using typewriter to feel the mistakes, Human Search where sharing of knowledge of everyone, and just enjoy disconnecting. Also, part of their goal is to teach them to feel and bond with friends, live life simple, love moments not the material things and most importantly Disconnect to Reconnect, reconnect with yourself.
Dealing with information overload
In 2011, it was discovered that people consume 5 times more information than they did in 1986, which has the equivalency of 174 whole newspapers a day. It sounds like an absurd amount but just think - 72 hours of YouTube video are uploaded, 350,000 tweets are tweeted, and 49,000 Instagram posts are submitted every single minute. Coupled with many individuals being equipped with smartphones, data plans, and social media apps, it begins to be clear how we can consume so much.
Information overload is a term used to describe the phenomenon of there being so much information that one has difficulty making decisions. The human brain can only process so much information, and when faced with the incredible amounts of consumption occurring each and every day, our decision-making capacity is reduced (Speier, Valacich & Vessey 1999).
Clary Shirky notes in this quote that the core problem isn’t the intense amount of information in our lives, but the way in which we fail to filter out the information that isn’t applicable to us. Think of an apple farm where you harvest every fruit you can get your hands on - rotten and unripe ones are all picked indiscriminately. As a farmer, you would want a means of filtering out the bad apples from the good ones in the pursuit of productivity and efficiency.
Thus, what are some ways we can selectively harvest relevant information amidst all of the noise? How do you alleviate information overload?
Different techniques and methods marry together to create a filter for everything to fall through. The results lead to better decision making, increased certainty in the day to day intake of material and thinking, and more mental energy for everything else in your life.
When it is easier to sort through everything, you can find yourself resting a bit easier.
Check out the following posts on how to do just that:
Curating your information
How to have a healthy info-diet
Keep disciplined
Don’t multitask!
Everything is connected
Asay, Matt (13 January 2009). "Shirky: Problem is Filter Failure, Not Info Overload".
Speier, C.; Valacich, J.S., & Vessey, I. (1999). "The Influence of Task Interruption on Individual Decision Making: An Information Overload Perspective". Decision Sciences. 30 (2): 337–360.
