I realized last week when I was away for a week and finally checked my email, that I was swamped with notifications from all of the social networking sites that I belong to. I know that I probably belong to more than the average person, as part of the market research I did for a job included ‘experienceing’ other sites. Holy cow though, can you say SPAM?
I’ve gone in and turned off most of the auto messages. Frankly, when I first signed up to the really popular ones like fb and myspace they were new and very shiny. Now they are becoming a pain in the butt.
Sometimes more (applications, notifications etc) is just more. It’s not better.
Thanks to David Armano and his article for making people think about this.
