ON OVERDOSING ON TWITTER AND OTHER WEB THINGS

EASING OFF

Scott Karp's post on "Why I Stopped using Twitter" has quite a few people talking about it on Techmeme.  It is a post worth reading, but so is Charlie O'Donnell's response to it.

We've all experienced the "high noise-to-signal" ratio that  Scott  talks about, not only with Twitter, but  other applications like Facebook and MySpace.  Not to mention new ones like Tumblr, which I talked about not too long ago.

Indeed, it doesn't stop there,  but goes all the way to how  web geeks like Scott (and yes, me too), tend  to over-use  these things at the exclusion of  many other things.

All of this can be cured by just recalling the lesson that most of our moms and./or dads taught us so long ago, "Try things in moderation". 

Implementing that advice every now and then is a good thing, whether it's Twittering or anything else on the web, or off.

So I'm going to put a "moderation" post-it on my monitor, while I return to my Twitter and other internet distractions.

The web is addicting (and there are solutions).

And you didn't hear it here first.

Comments

[Lyle]

If I didn't know better, I'd think all the lessons of Usenet had been forgotten.

[Charlie]

A moderation sticky! Great idea!