Taming the information overflow

News feeds and activity streams are becoming ever more popular as the amount of online information we share and consume grows.

I am starting to wonder, however, where all this is going. The amount of information is only going to keep increasing, and at some stage it is going to become too much.

Do I really want - or need - to know exactly what every person I've ever met is doing or thinking right now? Sure, to a certain extent it can be useful and/or interesting, but there must come a point at which it is actually more of a distraction.

There is only so much information we can take in. Filtering of content is a partial solution, but only partial.

It will be interesting to see what happens!