We’ve officially gone connection crazy. You can hardly blink without a new social networking gizmo sprouting up. Are we spreading ourselves too thin by trying to stay connected? More often than not.
The web can lead us to make mindless connections simply because, well, it’s easy. The threshold of how valuable you are to me before I click “follow” on Twitter is comically low. What’s difficult to remember, however, is that each time you start a new connection (no matter how insignificant it seems) you’re reducing the value of your existing connections. Oops.
Often what I see, and what I’m trying to avoid, is a traffic-jam of connections that takes too much time, energy, and money to untangle. Connections are valuable no doubt, but we’ve entered an era of the “compulsive connection” where the management of those connections has taken the back burner.
Simply, web-enabled connections aren’t going away. I suspect the solutions lies in more advanced (and artifically intelligent) filtering methods. What do you think?
