I agree with you that there's an introvert/extravert dimension to how people screen information, but I find your anecdotal examples interesting. I have no problem with working around noise and picking out interesting details from it (when I was growing up the TV was on almost 24-7). That's different from deliberately trying to drink from the fire hose that is the Internet every day without making some hard decisions on what you will read, what you *might* read, at least sometimes, and what you won't read because life is too damn short.
Well, yes, but my point is that you (and I) perceive it as different, but there's a whole growing segment that seems to perceive it as the same, just a different kind of noise to filter. I'm puzzled but fascinated.
I see your point, but I'm wondering how much of that difference really is generational and how much is simply personal preference.
I can't speak for anybody else, but I have certainly been adopting new information technology. I had never viewed a website before the year 2000, regularly used e-mail before then. Now, I spend several hours a day reading and answering e-mails, and I surf and blog regularly.
Personally, I have very little patience with sorting through recommendations from acquaintances that "you really have to look at this website!" because I perceive reading through enough of the site to figure out whether there's anything there I care about as drudgery. It's not that I *can't* do it, or even that I can't do it fast enough, but doing it isn't effortless or fun; it's work. This is also my problem with IMing; it's work fiddling with typing messages into a Blackberry or phone, but much less work to speak the message into a phone or touch-type it into an e-mail or blog.
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I can't speak for anybody else, but I have certainly been adopting new information technology. I had never viewed a website before the year 2000, regularly used e-mail before then. Now, I spend several hours a day reading and answering e-mails, and I surf and blog regularly.
Personally, I have very little patience with sorting through recommendations from acquaintances that "you really have to look at this website!" because I perceive reading through enough of the site to figure out whether there's anything there I care about as drudgery. It's not that I *can't* do it, or even that I can't do it fast enough, but doing it isn't effortless or fun; it's work. This is also my problem with IMing; it's work fiddling with typing messages into a Blackberry or phone, but much less work to speak the message into a phone or touch-type it into an e-mail or blog.