TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
Something that I don’t really like about the modern internet and especially social media is the complete and total information overload that is going on, I’m not sure if this is just me, but I feel that there is just so much stuff out there being posted on social media, on sites like twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc one of which is the absolute worse when it comes to my point. But before that let me go a bit more into my personal experience.
I absolutely hate this, let get that out the way first and foremost, but even then who wouldn’t imagine getting a bunch of shit tossed at you and before you can even process what even happened more crap get tossed at you. Even worse I have ADHD so this information overload makes it even worse. Sometime I even outright self inflict this on me where I go on sites like Reddit (Despite the numerous blocks I put on it) and just proceed to blast my already poorly focus mind into an absolute frenzy.
It also doesn’t help how mainstream social media is built on this it’s built on completely overwhelming you with so much stuff. Memes, opinions, articles, internet/celebrity drama, NSFW stuff, and News, all of this is stuff I came across when I browsed twitter once for like 5 minutes this was so overwhelming to me I straight up couldn’t focus at all on anything.
When I was a more active Reddit user I would just be paralyzed with information overload and how I sometime just browse Reddit even more because my brain was at a point where it just couldn’t function at all.
If I have to describe it using a metaphor. It’s like drinking water when we absorb information we takes little chunks of it and process it, just like how when we drink water we usually take some small gulps at a time and proceed to drink it down this works and is (In my opinion at least) the way to do this we take pieces of information and process it in our brain to form an opinion or idea.
But with the current state of social media it now feels less like drinking water and more so getting fucking waterboarded we are taking in way more water in our body before we can process it and is basically dying this is just straight up not healthy in the slightest and the fact that we do it everyday and every time we go on social media is baffling.
One site though takes the cake for information overload one that has caused insane amount of damage on the internet as a whole TikTok. If you thought that sites like the 3 I mentioned at the start was bad enough (Like me). TikTok is a whole new ball game you’re no longer getting waterboarded anymore you are just tossed into the middle of the ocean with no raft, no floaty, no help, just nothing. Good luck out there
Now I know TikTok and its side effect had been talked to death at this point hell I feel that it’s common knowledge at this point that TikTok completely overwhelm you with information, but there’s a reason for this it’s because it’s the best at it, short form content, easy to use, no end feed, infinite scroll. This had been optimized!
So much so that every site on earth had started to take after tiktok, you got Youtube shorts, Instagram reels, Twitter, hell even Vine is making a comeback to cash in on this.
Honestly I just lowkey hate this whole thing we need to rest our brain, it’s how we learn, how we get ideas, how we become creative, how are brain basically function.
This is one of the reason (Possibly main) reason I created a blog I hope that blogging and putting my thoughts down on a page without some kind of limit can help fight this feeling of getting waterboarded with information. I don’t really know how to end these uh... sub to my Rss feed?