What is the term describing the condition of being oversaturated with information?
This is how I feel: too much random information online, very hard to find what you are really interested in, being annoyed by having to sift through the random photos and poorly written pieces, or pieces that recur too much. The abundance of often false opinions being pushed down your throat.
Is there a term that describes this information oversaturation causing the feeling of fatigue?
Solution 1:
Information overload (also known as infobesity or infoxication):
- refers to the difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information. The term is popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock, but is mentioned in a 1964 book by Bertram Gross, The Managing of Organizations.
Speier et al. (1999) stated:
- Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision makers have fairly limited cognitive processing capacity. Consequently, when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision quality will occur.
(Wikipedia)
Solution 2:
"Infoglut" is another alternative to "information overload".
Infoglut as defined by BusinessDictionary.com:
Information glut. Masses of continuously increasing information, so poorly catalogued or organized (or not organized at all) that it is almost impossible to navigate through them to search or draw any conclusion or meaning.
Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/infoglut.html#ixzz40YP6OiN1
Solution 3:
You are inundated with information.
inundate:
- overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.
- "we've been inundated with complaints from listeners"
- synonyms: overwhelm, overrun, overload, bog down, swamp, besiege, snow under, bombard, glut
- flood
- "the islands may be the first to be inundated as sea levels rise"
- synonyms: flood, deluge, overrun, swamp, drown, submerge, engulf
Solution 4:
I think the phrase "paralysis by analysis" encapsulates the feeling of being overwhelmed by an abundance of information.
Wikipedia has a thorough explanation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis