Information is Everywhere!!

Whether we manipulate information or information manipulates us?


Today, information is everywhere that makes our lives so convenient that we really can’t live without. The Google search engine is a really great helper when we work, we can find everything we want by typing in keywords. With just one click, you can find websites, pictures and video clips about the keyword you typed, e.g. when you typed ‘Information overload’ on Google, it showed about 4,590,000 results in 0.12 seconds (as shown under the search bar). Less than 1 second, you can have all the information you want through Google.
With Google Map, we can find places that we haven’t been before accurately. You can see the map with street view, so you would know how the street looks like even when you haven’t been there before. The first picture has shown where I am living and the second one has shown the back door of where I lived during the study tour!

A is where I am living! 

The backdoor of Wesley College, City Road, Sydney

With Google Docs, we can save and edit our documents in different formats just as we like, like document, presentation, spreadsheet, etc. You can even create folders to manage your documents.
Though the Internet is really convenient and it can make our lives better, we may suffer from Information Fatigue Syndrome from the British Psychologist David Lewis (1990), e.g. having 4,590,000 results from typing ‘Information overload’ or having three hundred more pieces of new feeds on Facebook everyday, or receiving loads of unnecessary emails everyday, etc.