Information overload is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that issue, and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information.
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One of the first social scientists to notice the negative effects of information overload was the sociologist Georg Simmel, who hypothesized that the overload of sensations in the modern urban world caused city dwellers to become jaded and interfered with their ability to react to new situations.
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Information overload has been documented throughout periods where advances in technology have increased a production of information.
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Information overload was often experienced by the affluent, but the circulation of books were becoming rapidly printed and available at a lower cost, allowing the educated to purchase books.
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Information overload became recordable, by hand, and could be easily memorized for future storage and accessibility.
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Information overload discusses how information theory was created to first bridge mathematics, engineering, and computing together, creating an information code between the fields.
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The phenomenon of information overload is connected to the field of information technology.
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Information overload's concern is shared by Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, who stated that "instantaneous devices" and the abundance of information people are exposed to through e-mail and other technology-based sources could be having an impact on the thought process, obstructing deep thinking, understanding, impeding the formation of memories and making learning more difficult.
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Information overload when searching can result in a satisficing strategy.
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Information overload explains that notifications pull people's attentions away from their work and into social networks and e-mails.
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Information overload advises that people stop using their iPhones as alarm clocks which means that the phone is the first thing that people will see when they wake up leading to people checking their e-mail right away.
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Information overload advises to fight irrationality with irrationality by using add-ons that allow you to pause your inbox or produce other results.
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