Is Information Overload Making Us Depressed?

Is Information Overload Making Us Depressed? – TIME Healthland:

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To improve your well-being, Weil suggests, cut down on your consumption of data. "The modern downpour of data is largely worthless distraction," Weil writes, "and the sheer amount is drowning us." He argues that the modern Information Age, this "revolution in information delivery," offers little in the way of genuinely useful information — exposing us instead to a torrent of what Francis Heylighen, a cyberneticist at the Free University of Brussels, called "irrelevant, unclear, and simply erroneous data fragments" or "data smog" — and it's seriously bringing us down.