Information Overload?

I wrote yesterday about the role of the New Media in the US elections and how important it has been for candidates to embrace the new technologies.

Well maybe there is another side to this.The phrase information overload.

Writing on the Biving's report Joe Crump finds himself overwelmed by the amounts of coverage of the Palin-Biden debate on Thursday night.He ponders

Because of my overuse of technology, I felt that it became difficult for me to form uninfluenced opinions. Other friends and colleagues have different opinions on the issue, but I feel that technology may serve only to distract from the actual debate.

It is an important point to make.There are many advantages to the new media era,many opinions to be held but at the end of the day there is only so much information that an individual can take in