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September 20, 2011 at 11:33 am #4437
 Ali Gledhill

Do you ever find yourself feeling overloaded by digital input? I’ve been a bit busy over the last week or so and found myself unable to keep up with digital media.

I prioritised the Daily Readings here, partly because I’m committed to the cause but mainly because they are now baked in to my daily God time. (It’s not a “quiet time” if you’re listening to Take That at some volume…) But I found Facebook messages easy to put on the To Do list and took the attitude that forums and comments threads will still be there when I get round to them.

It got me thinking about the quantity of information I share and the number of networks I am a part of. On a normal day the flow of information enriches my life, but it can feel overwhelming if I have an unusually busy couple of days.

Do others sometimes feel the same? Do you try to catch up, or do you just write off those lost days?
September 21, 2011 at 6:17 am #4444
 Martin Laker

Really agree with what you are saying and I think the “digital overload” can be one of those things that catches up on us without realising. Twitter, Facebook, blogging, commenting on forums etc don’t have to take up much time on their own but all together they can be a real time killer. I also think it’s much easier to let the flippant and perhaps pointless quick comments which are so easy to post fill up our time and leave the longer and more in depth comments out.

It is very much like our offline lives. It’s easy to send a quick text or to have a five minute catch up with someone but it takes a bit more effort to have a longer conversation and genuinely find out how someone is. I guess this is in part what your Big Bible post was about yesterday.
September 21, 2011 at 6:02 pm #4449
 Tara

Sometimes I do feel overloaded by digital input. And some days I try to catch up and other days I just say never mind. Sometimes it’s too much to go so far back to what you missed. It’s exhausting. I just say, I’ll stick to the present and not worry abot what happened in the past. But it also could depend on what site that I visit often and how far back I want to go or not go.
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