Infobesitas

Before this morning I had never heard of the term infobesitas. I was driving in the car while listening to the radio. In the radio show they were calling someone who had her own company, this company was there to look out for new and interesting facts on the internet. Information. When the company has found interesting facts they send links to all of their members so that they can see it too.

During this radioconversation "infobesitas" had come to terms. What is this actually? Is is a disease? Well, it could be called a disease, it actually is the need for information during every second of the day. People who do not want to miss anything about the news or follow for example, Twitter, Facebook and Hyves all day long, have infobesitas.

The job from the woman of the company is to check all this information, but for most people it is dangerous and a great seduction while they are working. You do not have the time to check all these sites constantly during the day. People are expected to do real work, and produce something.

Are we going too far with this information society? It seems to be difficult to not check your mail every 10 minutes. I do not really know what to think, I might say that I suffer from infobesitas. I just bought a phone with an internetconnection!