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Since the dawn of the internet, everyone has been flooded with storms of information and hurricanes of irrelevant web content. Yet, it has been looked at positively most of the time. It brings people together; It makes knowledge available to everyone; And it makes the world a small global village. But rarely do people wonder if this overwhelming stream of information is always an advantage.
To me I think it depends on the perspective you're coming from. I think we can rate walks of life in terms of what I'd like to call their "weboresistence" (God bless physics and the abundance of fun terms it supplies
). Politics, in my opinion, would score the highest on this measure. Everyone is using the web to merely affirm their stands and go further down the line of polarization. The net has strengthened the opposition, provided each party with more weapons in its campaign arsenal, and has proven to not have this much of a unifying effect on the field of politics. From this perspective, more information; more tools, did not mean better position at all.In the field of finance, some research shows that additional trading information does not always mean better decisions and higher returns. The value of the information varies greatly with the nature of its source and content. Even in marketing and advertising, it is known that more exposure, bigger ads and longer videos in social media is only better to a certain extent.
As I said, it depends on where you're coming from. More information is not always something you want to look for.
2 comments:
You bring up the cliche American question...is more always better? And I think it depends on what you do with it. If you need more information, there it is. But many people get bogged down in all the different chocies and decisions that the information slows people down. I know, personally, i've second guessed a decision just because I knew i should look at the other options. I ended up making the same decision, but wasting almost an hour of my time looking in to the exact reasons why my intital instinct decision was right in the first place.
more is better when it gives a second opinion. helps us from getting closed minded. The fluff sometimes put in information to make it look sophisticated can be lost especially in todays society where you have to get your point across quickly or you lose the readers interest
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