Technology Takes Over, So Do Headaches

In this day and age, being tech savvy is a must. Employers look for it, friends expect it, and nowadays most relationships are built around it. But with all the new technology out today, it seems like the hi-tech world is trying to overload us.

Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and Google are just a few of the many online sources that people use on a daily basis. Most people, though aren’t just using one, they’re using all of them and often at the same time. With so many of them linked for easy access, it makes your head spin. Yu find something on Google, you post it on Facebook, you like it to Twitter, a follower quotes it back to Facebook. It’s an endless cycle of technological pain. On top of those social elements are the business musts: email, phone calls, and text messaging.

USA Today posted on their online site “People are drowning in a deluge of data. Corporate users received about 110 messages a day in 2010, says market researcher Radicati Group. There are 110 million tweets a day, Twitter says. Researcher Basex has pegged business productivity losses due to the "cost of unnecessary interruptions" at $650 billion in 2007.”

So is it really all it’s cracked up to be? Do people need eighteen different mobile accounts in order to stay in the loop? Probably not. Most of them are linked to each other anyway so even if you don’t have Twitter, you can read someone’s Tweets on their blog or personal site. If someone doesn’t have Facebook or instant messaging, chances are they have text messaging.

This overload of technology is so unnecessary when most are just replicas of sources that have been around for years. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Dogpile: they’re all the same!

While many sites are trying to simplify, they’re failing to acknowledge the bigger picture: there are just too many, and they don’t seem to be going away any time soon.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-02-01-tech-overload_N.htm