Web 2.Overload
Trends July 25th. 2007, 12:33amWe hear a new Web 2.0 service is launched almost every day. A new blog is created every second every day. I am now experiencing a syndrome, called Web 2.Overload.
Here is the copy from my Google Readers account:
From your 145 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,144 items, starred 32 items, and shared 17 items.
If I spent 30 seconds in average to read one item; it means I have spent 51.2 hours in the last 30 days to read my feeds. That’s almost 2 hours every day!
I am pretty sure many of you have the same problem with me. Do you have any tips to overcome this problem? I realize that many of items in my feeds are not in my interests. The question is how to filter them.
Reading blogs is one aspect of my Web 2.Overload syndrome. Participating to Web 2.0 is another aspect. I am currently maintaining four blogs. It always takes time to do blogging. That’s why, I cannot write a new posting every day.
Besides that, I have many other Web 2.0 accounts. I don’t even remember the exact number any more. I have more than 10 accounts in various social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, MySpace, Multiply, Yahoo! 360, Windows Live Spaces and some infamous ones. Imagine if I have to update my profile, I have to login to each one of them.
How do you overcome your Web 2.Overload?
3 Responses to “Web 2.Overload”
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July 25th, 2007 at 2:38 am
> How do you overcome your Web 2.Overload?
I guess same way as with library overload, dvd overload, newspaper overload, or heck, social life overload.
That is, you have to choose
Choosing what *not* to follow is not that easy in real life, I admit. I\’m having hard time every time I clean up and decide which sites / feeds to ignore / unsubscrive (= the ones that give the lowest return-on-attention)
Ps. please remove if I sent duplicate comments. I had some troubles with the spam filter…
July 26th, 2007 at 8:01 am
I have a similar Google Reader load as you, but don’t even attempt to keep up with nearly as many “social” networks. I found that most of them (myspace, facebook, etc) ended up being me logging in, checking messages, then leaving. no activity, and no one else seemed to notice.
July 26th, 2007 at 8:17 am
@Ricky: I end up having so many social networks accounts because my friends invited me. I have many friends in Asia; many of them are using friendster or multiply. Now I live in North America, and many people here use Facebook. Then, for career and business, I got invitation on LinkedIn.