Information Overload

Use this week's readings to reflect on how your life is affected by information (too much? too little? or just enough?)

After learning more about the concept of information overload, I have come to see the many parts of my life that are affected by information. The readings mainly focused on the internet and search engines when it comes to information overload. I was reading about the different kinds of problems and possible solutions while thinking about how my life is affected by information. I believe that my life as a whole is affected just enough by information, but when it comes to the different aspects of my life, some are affected too much, some too little. One obvious factor of my life that is affected by information overload is when it comes to school. It sometimes gets difficult balancing three different subjects in school when there is so much information coming at me every day. At times it becomes too much to the point where I have to take a step back simply think about everything... my different classes, my notes, my homework etc. in order to handle the information overload. I have also experienced information overload in my life when it comes to keeping up with current events. It seems that new information is always coming at me so fast that it's really hard to keep track of what's going on in the world today. Unfortunately sometimes this information is too much to handle so I chose to avoid most aspects all together and only watch one news station or only read the paper. The rest of my life isn't too cluttered with information overload so I believe, that as a whole, my life is affected just enough by information.


3 Discussion Questions:
1. How do we view the future of search engines? Is Google going to take over the market or will there be many more to come?
2. Knowing that there are many causes to information overload, how do we think that the problem will ultimately be solved? What solution seems most logical?
3. What other aspects of new media besides the internet are affected by information?