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.