Netspeaking - Part of my life

As I have mentioned before in my previous post, I did netspeaking since very long ago when I first used mIRC. Since then, I never stopped netspeak. Netspeak take place almost everyday as it was popular to go to chat rooms everyday.

Then, mobile phone came into my life. The use of sms further enhance my netspe

aking through textspeaking. I find it so easy and convenient to type in shorts that I forgot to change it back even in my academics studies. And of course, the note was unreadable and I gave it up in my academic studies.

Frankly, textspeak did affect my academic studies quite greatly at the start when I do not know how to manage the two "language", I have to throw a year of scien

ce notes away due to the excessive use of textspeak. So if others were to debate on whether textspeak affect academic studies, my case will be yes.

Then, I continue to use textspeak even on email no matter with my friends or family.

"den u oso type very long to them la.. so tt they will reply u long long oso.. i mean sure gt things to tok about wan la... rubbish oso can wad.. las time oso everytime tok rubbish rite.. hahah.. u all siao wan leh.. so many email.. lol.... u noe my add anot.. nvm i gif u now.."

Until one day, my dad could not tolerate me anymore. By then, I learnt that if I continue to use textspeak too excessively on my daily life, it will affect me greatly. I have to stop usin

g it in formal situations like emails or formal text messages in order to give others a professional image. That was when I start to manage my textspeaking. The only time I will use textspeak is on chats or sms.

Information and Information Overload

After reading the supplementary document, I realised that I have have the problem of information overload due to not being able to clearly identify what are the information I need and the ways to retrieve them.

In Facebook, there is a function of news feed which provides frequent updates to users. I do not know how everyone one of you use your facebook, but for me, facebook is a place for getting more informations on my friends, e.g in a relationship. And thus news feed is very important to me to stay updated. And there was a time where I check ALL news feeds in order to get important updates.

Let's us imagine, in the morning we start school at 0930 and reach home after dinner at let's say 9 plus, there will be over 300+ news feeds waiting for you. Moreover, some of the feeds might be album, events, notes, or videos, which take much more time to read them. Among 300 feeds, if 10% are useful to me, there will already be 30 news feeds. Among them, 5 are notes, 5 are albume, and 5 are videos, once in awhile, videos will link to other videos related like the Apple Daily Videos. It usually take me about 2 - 3 hours to finish the feeds, which is 12 midnight.

Because there are too much data i nthe news feed, I take a long time to find my information. At the same time, the filter system is not useful to me as I would like to know more about different people, even if they are not close to me. Thus, I am looking at loads and loads of data to get around 10% of information.

In order to solve this problem, I took an extreme step, which is giving up my information. I do not look at news feeds anymore nowadays, and this saved me 2 hours on other stuff. Come to think of it, those gossip do not worth so much time of mine and I am lucky to realised that I am overloaded with all these unimportant information before it is too late.