Comments on: Questions around organizing my life online vs information overload

By: Mobimeet - Notes on a lazy Saturday night

Mobimeet - Notes on a lazy Saturday night — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:00:54 +0000

[...] - an interesting post from blog designer Rachel of cre8d design entitled “Questions around organizing my life online vs. information overload” begs me to consider where I stand in my own life. I mean, I run research & development [...]

By: simplicity

simplicity — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:43:56 +0000

yes, there is too much info today coming too fast. I almost despise twitter and facebook b/c of the statuses. I mean, who cares what so and so is doing every 10 mins?

This takes away from a valuable mantra of my life. “Whatever you’re doing, where-ever you are, be ALL there.”

Can you imagine a person you’re having dinner with always looking at another table? and how can you get any work done in front of your computer when all these statuses fly by that make you wonder other things?

simplicity is key.

By: Go Media

Go Media — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:55:12 +0000

I hate that websites such as facebook are so slow and often have lots of errors

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:09:08 +0000

ha, I’ve come across this post and discussion quite randomly while trying to update my blog roll! I have got SO frustrated recently with this issue of tabs or central organisable website. Downloaded Flock yesterday and will see how that works out, and have used NetVibes before but generally I do think that having everything in one place removes the element of choice as to what you keep abreast of. When you initially download something like Flock you have to tell it where you have accounts etc. But, overall I feel that if you REALLY want to know the news…you log onto bbc.co.uk or similar. If you suddenly realise you haven’t heard from someone for a while, you go onto facebook, find them and message them (well, I do) Do I need a faceless website thingy to gather it all together - no, I think I make the choice to do certain things at certain times when I feel the need, urge or have some free space. Facebook alone limits my productivity - I don’t need all the other applications multiplying that! Anyway, rant over, thanks for making me realise I am not the only one!!

By: Vinh Le

Vinh Le — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:03:50 +0000

I find that too many different applications tend to annoy me more than help me and like you I tend to go back to using individual applications or websites than tools that try to organize it all into one place.

But, there are some tools that really do help and make it easier to stay organized. I think it just depends on what your needs are and if they would actually save you time or not. I find google’s home and it’s ability to add tabs and rss feeds very useful to find new and interesting topics, like this post.

Bene: I was forced into facebook as I found it is hard to connect to certain people without it, because well that is their main and often only program they use to stay connected to others.

By: Bene D

Bene D — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:34:34 +0000

People like me who won’t join up.:^)

I played with Facebook for a day on someone else’s account.

Rachel, I hated it, the applications were easy, it was all the stuff. Something was coming at this person’s page constantly and they aren’t at all active on it. I almost felt trapped.

Information overload can happen with just about anything I think, be it an RSS reader, TV, radio, print. Each one of us has to make a decision about what we can and can’t manage.

I tried Facebook, I didn’t see any up side to it, and I’m not going to try it again.

As for being organized, I gave up years ago, like you I have a tendency to use a paper and pen when I have a to do list, more habit than anything, but it works.

By: rachelcunliffe

rachelcunliffe — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:25:21 +0000

I’ve tried Flock for a while but it kept crashing for some reason.

Facebook offers heaps of features, but it is quite a walled community which is frustrating when you know people who won’t join up

By: Landon Miller

Landon Miller — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:04:08 +0000

I feel that sometimes logging into all the different types of online applications takes away from my productivity. Flickr was great in the beginning, but now Facebook offers a lot of the same features and they are automatically available to the people I want to view them. Also, if facebook could make their status more ‘exportable’ instead of using their ugly banner….that would make me extremely fanatical. Twitter just really serves no purpose for me and seems like a waste of time. Have you tried flock out? It has a pretty good Facebook sidebar built directly into the browser.