What exactly does information overload mean? This question has crossed my mind ever since I got assigned with this blog. When I started searching for what information overload means, I found a variety of answers for my question. According to http://www.wikipedia.org/, information overload can be referred to as the difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information. Also, on http://www.businessdictionary.com/, it states the following for what the word infomation overload means: "Stress induced by reception of more information than is necessary to make a decision (or that can be understood and digested in the time available) and by attempts to deal with it with outdated time management practices."
So what exactly does this mean? The way that I interpretted these answers was that whenever a person accumulates more informatin than they can handle or have time for, this can result in negative emotions such as stress. To me, information overload is not good on an individual because who wants to be stressed out? I know I don't!
The thought process that I used to get my answers for my question consisted of steps. First, I went to Google and I typed in, "What is Information Overload?" The second search result that was listed was from http://www.wikipedia.org/ and that is where I got one of my answers. I then checked the references at the bottom of the page to make sure that the information that I obtained was accurate and it all checked out. After this, I then wanted to find another definition and see how other websites compared to wikipedia so I found the next search option which was http://www.businessdictionary.com/. From the two sites, I basically got the same answer to my question just in different ways of saying it. I feel that with the two links that I used that I found reliable information to back up my question and that my question was answered thoroughly. The two links that I used were: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/information-overload.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload.
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