How Information Overloaded Are You? →

I don’t toil over a computer at work all day, so coming home to a quiet evening to be in front of one is altogether an escape and opportunity to catch up on emails and more than a handful of blogs I subscribe to.

The notion of it seems daunting but being able to accomplish a lot of this throughout the day on the iPhone has lessen the time normally required to take care of all of this but I still think there’s a feeling of information overload that exist.

How much is too much information? Well, Beth Kanter has created an information overload self-assessment, a simple yes/no quiz of 20 questions that lets you diagnose the degree of information overload that you might be feeling and I plucked out 5 that stood out the most -

• Do you ever wish the web or social media would just go away?
• Do you sit at your computer for longer than an hour at a time without getting up to take a break?
• Do you feel that you often cannot concentrate?
• Do you feel that you have to read word for word all information that comes into your email box or RSS reader or Twitter?
• Do you get anxious if you are away from the Internet for too long?

If you can relate to any of these, then you might be more than interested in exploring the rest. As a result of taking the quiz, I determined that I was completely overwhelmed with my feed subscriptions and have now trimmed it tremendously.

I’ve learn to hold in high regard individual post and it’s become key to selecting or forging information that I deem brings value to me. It’s no longer about how much content a blog produces because those that post sporadically are typically the ones resulting with quality content that I’m more than enthusiastic in reading, bookmarking and sharing as oppose to just skimming.

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