UK Women Stressed by TMI

This London Evening Standard article summarizes a study that revealed that 59% of women in the UK feel “swamped by unnecessary information, including text messages, voicemail and emails, (that) hampers their ability to run their lives as they wish.”

January 6, 2005 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. nbruce says:
    January 7, 2005 at 4:54 pm

    Also degrading service
    I’ve noticed how technology is degrading some areas of personal service. My dr’s office, which has the ubiquitous “press 1” “press 2” answering message when you call, will no longer call in or fax prescriptions to the pharmacy–the message says it takes too much time away from seeing patients! The sick patient needs to drive to the office and pick up the script.

    Our church, which has a $5 million annual budget, will no longer mail the newsletter (says there are just too many zip codes in the congregation), and people can look at the web page if they need information or pick up the newsletter at church.

    Disintermediation has also eliminated the service of travel agents who used to pass their costs along to the carrier, now you get the surcharge (if you can find a travel agent) if you don’t want to or can’t make your own arrangements.

    Let’s face it. There are only so many minutes in a day or a lifetime. The “saved” time that technology buys is being deposited in a black hole after being withdrawn from my account.

    Time to go to the coffee shop where time stands still for an hour while I read the papers.

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  2. Durst says:
    January 7, 2005 at 11:08 pm

    It’s not just women either…
    Men are faced with information overload, just like women. I think the difference is they don’t think it’s something they see as being a problem.

    I think lots of people like the fact that being “on” all the time makes them feel connected, when in fact, all it does is make them available. There’s a big difference.

    I still haven’t learned how to use all the functions on my PDA yet, because I’m afraid when I do, my cell phone and PDA will be able to get along without me!

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