staying connected

What happened to the address book, it was so simple, keep everyone’s address and every couple of years, take all the notes and scribbles and transfer them to a new book. Now you have an email address, or two or three or like me eight or more, you have a facebook page you may or may not even want, do you really want to keep in touch with your high school buddies, a twitter account, and 20 others. Hopefully you have standardized your passwords and logins or have that special cheat sheet in the drawer or in a word document you call junk, where all the passwords are. Maybe your sophisticated and use open-ID or other password manager, and you need to maintain your resume, and now your linkedIn profile, and perhaps your VisualCV or other work profile, plus all the travels sites, banking, and hobbies. All of these distractions cost the U.S. alone over $588 Billion dollars in productivity loss. This is caused because all information regardless of source is at the same priority. There is too much information, poor quality information, and the information is difficult to use and share. Most people spend hours – staying connected – the crack-berry addicts sleep with their devices under their pillow, always connected isn’t healthy.