Too Much Information

In the world of text messaging and twittering, one of the most widely used acronyms (after OMG, BTW, LOL, etc.) is TMI, which is shorthand for Too Much Information and usually means that the recipient of one of these messages just has information overload. He or she can't or won't process all the information sent to them and has thus sent back a mild protest--TMI.

In our modern world, don't we all sometimes feel that we are receiving, by various means probably not even including texting, far more information than we want, need, can use and/or care about?

Only a generation or so ago, even the most knowledgeable people didn't have access to 24/7 news stations (they didn't exist!) or information now easily available on the Internet (PC's were just coming into widespread use) or certainly the currently ubiquitous cellphones which "way back then" in the '80's only could make telephone calls. Imagine how primitive!

You actually had to read a newspaper (remember them?) or magazine or carefully listen to a radio or TV news program to find out what was going on--and without much of the trivia than is now available. Rarely, for most people was there too much information--often not enough.

Actually if the irrelevant (should President Obama have bought pizza from his hometown Chicago rather than from St. Louis, did Billy Bob Thornton "pull a Joaquin Phoenix" in a Canadian interview, is Lindsay Lohan for real, will Blago go to Costa Rica to star in an NBC reality show, is the new White House dog Bo potty trained, etc. etc.) is filtered out there is a wealth of good information to make you smarter and more intelligent.

In order to achieve what might be referred to as JEI (Just Enough Information) you need to pay very close attention to The Normal Blog. Of course, in general blogs are probably the biggest source of TMI (present company excluded). Sadly, much of the "information" imparted is only opinion (present company also excluded).