Information cancellation
Beginning last night until now, we are experiencing downpour. It's another gloomy and rainy day for us here brought about by the storm Neneng.
We just finished breakfast and I am having my first cup of coffee and I feel pumped to write here before laziness overpowers me later on. I am writing as I listen to the cadence of wind and rain on the roofs and houses outside.
When it rains this long, it saturates everything causing erosions and flooding. We don't have a storm signal but it feels like at least storm signal no. 2. However, that is how nature works. The farther you are from the eye, the more saturated it gets.
I was reading a post earlier online about how information saturation is happening right now. The effect of it was we tend to cancel these information.
Just like when algorithms online would tend to pester you with ads and links about a certain product you have just researched. Say you have searched for a beauty product, then it will suggest to you everything about that product and you keep seeing posts or ads or links about that product. It is enticing at first but you grow tired of it that you tend to ignore that product later on.
After watching a video clip online, the suggested videos would be videos by the same content creator or other videos related to that. If I keep skipping the next video, then it will suggest me otherwise.
While ignoring can work in stuff like that, I think other information should not be ignored just like the basic motivational and inspirational videos, like those that really give useful information.
We all have different niche or interests or topics that we are well versed about or that we are comfortable writing about. We try to give new information to try to make it interesting hopefully.
But how about the topics that we all know in general? When we read about them, what do we do with it? How does it affect us? We read about those day in, day out not only here in read but in other platforms and online.
Do we grow tired of it that our brain would rather ignore it?
Or do we focus on one thing and keep building on that ignoring the rest of the information because we think it does not apply to us anymore?
We keep pushing others to do their best, to achieve, to succeed - all about self. How about your emotional skills? We are all about intellectual we tend to ignore feelings anymore.
I guess what I'm trying to say is to balance the information that you consume. You have to choice what you want to ignore or not but make sure that those you keep are beneficial not just to you but to everyone else.
The lead image was taken before publishing this post. That is how it looks outside right now - foggy and wet.
The first line of this song fits this weather.
Guilty, I sometimes ignore the good information and believe the unreliable one.