{"id":3620,"date":"2008-07-30T21:46:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T05:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2008-07-30T21:46:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T05:46:42","slug":"email-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Email Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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 Nor is e-mail always friendly — it can be confrontational in a way that talking usually isn’t.<\/p>\n

"If we’re having feelings with someone else that we need to confront," says therapist Firstenberg, "many times we’ll resort to an e-mail rather than take the risk of picking up the phone and calling. . . . It’s a very egocentric act. . . . It’s dumping. And it gets really misunderstood."<\/p>\n

Even if the e-mail is friendly, there’s still risk of offense if the recipient doesn’t respond quickly. Already feeling pressured to keep up with her in-box, attorney Jamison feels added stress from this kind of friendly fire.<\/p>\n

"Less than half a day goes by and you’ll get an e-mail saying, ‘Why haven’t you responded to my e-mail?’ " she says. "The expectation, because you’ve sent it, is the other person is looking at his screen all the time and his job<\/em> is to look at his screen waiting for e-mails."<\/p>\n

According to Jackson, information overload is not just making life at the dinner table less pleasant as Mom checks her BlackBerry, but it’s also undermining civilization itself.<\/p>\n

"We’re so overloaded by information bites that we’re less and less able to go deeply, to create knowledge or wisdom out of all the information," she says. "This is one reason why I say we’re on the cusp of a dark age."<\/p>\n

Historically, dark ages have sometimes been periods of technical advancement, she explains, "but they’re ultimately times of cultural decline. I think we’re defining our own dark age by skimming along on the surface of life and relationships and thoughts. And it’s certainly a dark age when we’re faced with an ignorance born not out of a lack of information but out of an inability to create knowledge out of the information around us."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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