Who knows what to do with too much data?

Continuing the thought from yesterday.  I wrote about how too-much-data (TMD) problem is creating a new challenges for social network users of filtering out signals from the noises.  Although it's a partly self-inflicted problem, because of difficulties with not knowing what to filter out ahead of time, there are opportunities for creating solutions around solving the TMD problem.

There are three user stories that I see:

Give it up. You can't keep up with everything.

Internet is vast.  We all knew that.  Although we realized that there are always information out there that we don't know about, we took a comfort of knowing that we can google anything and find the information that we needed.  Information existed in their own world.  We existed in our own world.  When we needed things, we retrieved them from the Internet.

With social media, things changed.  No longer information waits for us to retrieve them.  They are constantly thrown at us.  By Twitter Timeline, Facebook News Feed, and LinkedIn Network Updates, content are pushed out to us whether we are ready to consume them.

At the same time, social media lowered the economic barrier to publish content.  Everyone who has email address and has a social network account can post updates for all subscribers.  Even some monkeys seem to jump on this bandwagon and start their digital life as content creator.