The more, the worse - this could be the slogan of the information age. Associated Press found in a study last year that too much news can harm the human mind.

Participants in this study showed signs of news fatigue; that is, they appeared debilitated by information overload and unsatisfying news experiences . . .  Ultimately news fatigue brought many of the participants to a learned helplessness response. The more overwhelmed or unsatisfied they were, the less effort they were willing to put in.

The pull information revolution is based on quantity, not quality, especially for Internet beginners. It takes some time and effort to learn how to manage that stack of websites, sources and RSS feeds and you feel tired before reaching that goal.

The beginning of the year is that time when you make resolutions, I am right? They say it’s bad for the psyche, but since we all do it, why not decide to wipe out some useless information we get every day in our mailbox, Netvibes accounts, blog readers, Twitter readers etc.? Citeşte continuarea »