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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 3 2015, 07:17 PM (535 Views) | |
| Momentime | Dec 3 2015, 07:17 PM Post #1 |
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Sup guys, Shads here. So, for the past couple of weeks I've been noticing something about my life that I previously thought could not exist, or, if it did, existed in a fringe amount in few people. That aspect is simply this: I have access to and consume too much information. Most of this information comes from, as you might suspect, from the interwebz. Seriously, it's absolutely ridiculous the amount of thoughts, facts, and content that I have access to just by going to one strand of the web. What's equally ridiculous is how most of it is shit and how I have to navigate through that but I'll get to that part later. So, let's identify what information is, what information addiction/overload is, and then give an example. Information, to me, is anything that, once in contact with, requires some semblance of mental processing in order to understand. This can range from cat videos, porn, blogs, vlogs, essays, music, puzzles, online books/pdf's, the school library website, etc. etc. So you might laugh at a meme or be entertained by the dumbest shit, or get angry about some sob story, but it's all information and you still have to process this information in order to appreciate its content (or lack thereof) and understand it. And what's information addiction? For me, it's the feeling that no matter what, there's always another piece of information out there, and I feel compelled to access it, to the detriment of other things. Rather than chasing, say, euphoria given by drugs, the individual chases every bit of information he/she can get their hands on, for some inexplicable reason. For example, I might go on youtube and listen to music. Out of the corner of my eye, what's this? Some cgp grey video I haven't watched. Maybe it's about, say, history. So I google it. Wkipedia comes up, I click on that and about half the list of results that look interesting on page one. Halfway through result 2 I get bored and decide, hey, let's go on r/askhistorians, see what they have to say. Go there, intending to search up history of whatever, but instead I see currency or clothing trends in medieval east. Wow, that's interesting, let's click on that. Oh, I don't have any music running, let's go on soundcloud. Look around a bit. EDM here, trap there, some shitty indie band. Recommended for me. Put something on. Oh shit, I have to study! Look at my notes, powerpoint, textbook. It's macroscopic chromosomal changes and their effects on an individual and populations. Try to cram stuff about genetics and proteins when suddenly my phone vibrates. Haha, it's some cat/dog video. The entire time the soundcloud song is blasting in my ears. What time is it? Oh, only half an hour so far? Eh, I can go for more. BOOM, before I knew it half an hour had turned into 2 hours, and all this information that I'm trying to juggle has just given me a massive headache. [radio edit], I intended to finish chapter 17 in that time frame. [radio edit]er. And that's just one story. Is this infornography? I don't really get a thrill or kick out of it. I kind of just fall down a rabbit hole and by the time I emerge, I'm like this was a complete [radio edit]ing waste of time. Anyone else experience something similar? |
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| Jackal | Dec 3 2015, 07:28 PM Post #2 |
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Come and Take It - Temple Tsundere
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Pretty sure that's just ADHD, bruh try ritalin |
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| Saturos | Dec 3 2015, 07:40 PM Post #3 |
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I definitely hear you there, Shads. I probably spend a lot of time, especially when I'm tired or tell myself I don't have enough time to do something involved, where I just mindlessly surf the web without a particular goal in mind. Check the news, check FB, check twitter, check Temple, check Skype, check wiki, etcetc, in a vicious cycle. When in reality I could be doing something productive like writing, but I'm either too tired for that or tell myself I don't have enough time to really get settled in and focus (like for 40 minutes or so). Especially because I don't really need to focus much now that I'm outside of school. Even now, I'm Templing at work [Hidden Content: Login/Register to View] |
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| HyrulianJedi | Dec 3 2015, 07:54 PM Post #4 |
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Yep, I do this. I've been pretty trapped by it in particular for this semester. One of the ideas I've seen for it is the concept of "being busy/productive". You always want to feel like you're doing something, so you try to do as much stuff as possible. The two methods I've seen for addressing it are: 1) Lay out specific periods of time for a single task. No multitasking. No browsing. Set up music ahead of time and let it autopilot. Focus on the specific task at hand only. 2) Deliberately set aside time to do nothing. Not browse, not read, not watch videos. Nothing. Make a conscious effort to simply do nothing at all, to help break that subconscious desire to always be doing something. I've used #1 pretty extensively to be productive, but I still often hit the same problem Satty does: "Oh, I don't have time to do that right now, I'll just browse" or "I'll just take a short 10 minute break between things". The latter is fine - if you limit yourself to that time. |
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| Saturos | Dec 3 2015, 08:26 PM Post #5 |
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Laying out specific times to do stuff helped me do NaNo, and it's how I did stuff in school (churning out sometimes tens of thousands of words in essays each semester). Setting up music in advance is pretty key, too. I try to make playlists or loop things, or find a suitable radio station. Because once you're in that browser, it's really easy to flick to some other sites My response to 2 is "ain't nobody got time for that" 8D |
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| Gnarlymaple | Dec 3 2015, 08:48 PM Post #6 |
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I think I go through the same thing, and it's sometimes exacerbated by my anxiety. Usually its worse at night when I should be heading to bed or when my time is limited. I'll think "I'm going to relax on break at work or before I go to bed", but it doesn't often end up like that. Start checking the usual sites and reading Skype conversations, and then it's like "Ahh, just this last article/message to my friends, then I'll call it quits!". But then I have to keep reading more. Don't want to miss anything. 5 minutes turns into 20 which turns into an hour. Sometimes I have to remind myself explicitly to just put down the phone or shut the computer off and call it quits. I really instigates a panicked feeling sometimes, and at the end its not like I was reading anything important nor related to what I originally set upon. I was just mindlessly going down various paths that I was lead upon, yet it still creates a feeling that I'm going to miss out on something if I don't continue. I try to shut down early and disconnect my brain from devices entirely, as creating that separation helps to at least alleviate the anxiety that it causes me. I also try to keep myself busy with something interesting, be it games or a coding project, but the problem comes up during those activities occasionally. It takes a concentrated effort to suppress it, especially when I'm coding something I'm unfamiliar with (currently CSS/Bootsrap) and I need to do some Google searching anyway to get questions answered. |
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| Aevis Martius Ravi | Dec 3 2015, 09:24 PM Post #7 |
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When I have wifi I definitely get that way to some extent, it also serves as a pleasant distraction from reality, crappy situations or monotonous tasks. I have a bit of an addictive personality and have difficulty in moderation, so yeah, I hear ya. |
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| Lemubaby | Dec 3 2015, 10:26 PM Post #8 |
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oh gods [radio edit] ritalin extended release adderall, friend. just make sure you take it after youve already started studying |
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| Momentime | Dec 4 2015, 09:03 PM Post #9 |
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nah tbh i dont think its adhd. I can definitely focus when there's no distractions...namely, no internet, haha. And I do try to pace myself, but rather than say, ok, from x time to y time I'll study or do this or that, I try to limit my playtime, if you will. I installed a chrome extension that automatically blocks sites after a set amount of time spent on them, and IMO it's definitely helped. |
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