Users becoming fatigued with information overload

Fresh information is great - it's the repeats that are killing me.
 
What kills me is the people with frequent posts drown out the less-frequent content which is usually more valuable
 
entrepr said:
What kills me is the people with frequent posts drown out the less-frequent content which is usually more valuable
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sorry :o

The most irritating online complaint in Australia is posting mundane details of life. In Indonesia, profanity is the online pet peeve. Americans cannot tolerate constant complaining.
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this explains why we don't have many Aussies, Indonesians or Yanks on myBB :whistle:
 
I find that I don't have enough time to read all the information I want to.. Granted the article has a little less to do with this, but I find the wealth of information on the Internet great and at the same time troublesome! I often change interest fairly frequently and thus I'm always researching something, its great to have all the info at my finger tips it consumes far to much of my time... I do believe I know a bit about a lot, but I often could be doing other things!
 
entrepr said:
What kills me is the people with frequent posts drown out the less-frequent content which is usually more valuable
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Thats generalising...for your 1000th post...No value. People have something to say. It's a forum. A place to have your say. Say less and "think" they were great, or say more and "think" the same. What irritates me, is the people reporting others for the slightest perceived insult.

EDIT: I have never reported people until today. Today, because I was reported for a pithy statement, I reported 2 idiots. You know who you are.
 
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Lightscribe said:
Today ... I reported 2 idiots. You know who you are.
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Only two? I would assume there would more more in a forum with about 111667 members...

Freaksta said:
I do believe I know a bit about a lot
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"Jack of all trades, master of none"

I know the feeling :(
Always reading/researching some low-lever stuff or something from scratch - never really getting the time to delve into some uber advanced stuff of some sorts.
 
Information overload can be very fatiguing.

Over the past few years, my colleagues and I have studied the operation of aircraft carrier flight operations, nuclear power plants, air traffic control centers, and other complex, potentially hazardous advanced technologies, using interviews and field observations to find out what it is that makes some operations reliable and others not. Out of this research has emerged the beginning of a better language for understanding the difference between these complex, critical, and reliability-demanding operations and more mundane and ordinary ones with which most of us have direct experience.

Every group of operators we interviewed has developed a specialized language that sets them apart. Although every group expressed clearly their very special response to the demands for integration and interpretation placed on them, only in the Navy did we find a compact term for expressing it. Those who man the combat operations centers of U.S. Navy ships use the term "having the bubble" to indicate that they have been able to construct and maintain the cognitive map that allows them to integrate such diverse inputs as combat status, information flows from sensors and remote observation, and the real-time status and performance of the various weapons and systems into a single picture of the ship's overall situation and operational status.

For the casual visitor to the operations center, the multitude of charts and radar displays, the continuous flow of information from console operators and remote sources of surveillance and intelligence, the various displays that indicate weapons systems status, what aircraft are aloft, and who is in them, the inputs from ship and senior staff, are overwhelming. What surprised us at first was that even experienced officers did not attempt to make overall status assessments on the basis of a casual visit. Only when you have the bubble do these pieces begin to fall into place as parts of a large, coherent picture.

Given the large amount of information, and the critical nature of the task, creating and maintaining the required state of representational mapping, situational awareness, and cognitive and task integration is a considerable strain. On many ships, operations officer shifts are held to no more than two hours. "Losing the bubble" is a serious and ever-present threat; it has become incorporated into the general conversation of operators as representing a state of incomprehension or misunderstanding even in an ambiance of good information. In principle, the process could be carried through by logical, deductive chains of reasoning even if the bubble were lost, but even the most experienced of tactical officers would rather relinquish operational control if he loses the bubble than try to press on without it...

-- Rochlin, Gene I., Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization, Chapter 7: Expert Operators and Critical Tasks, Having the Bubble, (C) 1997 Princeton University Press
 
if they complain about to much info Why don't they just switch off their Computers, TV's, Smartphones and tablets.... Why?? because they can't go without them :whistle:
 
n!tro said:
if they complain about to much info Why don't they just switch off their Computers, TV's, Smartphones and tablets.... Why?? because they can't go without them :whistle:
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It's not always that simple. The easy availability of pagers and now cell phones makes it difficult to separate oneself from ones work even when one is off duty. Telling the boss not to call you or not answering your email may put you in a bad light.
 
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