Too Much Info.
I’ve discovered what an RSS feed is this week.
It’s so convenient! All I do is click ’subscribe to in Mail’, and there it is, all the posts of my favourite websites right in my mail box, waiting for me.
No need to open up countless numbers of web browsers. The problem of remembering to check said websites is over.
Just open my Mail application (not even because it’s always open anyway!) and there it is, ready to read. I’m eager to add to my list RSS feeds.
The only problem is, now I have 53 ‘new’ posts that I’m supposed to scroll through and read.
Unfortunately, I’m not time poor. I can read it if I so chose.
But the fact that it’s all there, demanding my attention puts me off.
As my blog title suggests, it’s too much information.
Being a product of today’s distracted society, my short attention span prevents me from going through it all; the mass quantity of ‘information’ is just too overwhelming.
Why post about this? The situation reminds me of an epiphany like magazine article I read awhile back about ‘too much choice’; how there is so much choice that we freeze up and can’t pick anything.
There are so many conveniences available to us now, and yet we don’t do anything with them. Perhaps that’s why: it’s too much.
I could ramble on about this, but if I do, I’ll probably forget my original point. So, I’ll end it with this:
Ah, the curse of the informed.
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