Limerick Ode To Information Overload
Happy Information Overload Day! (October 20, 2015)
Limerick Ode To Information Overload (3-Verse Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Too much data is haunting my dreams–
Excess info and too many memes.
Overloaded with news,
My brain has the blues:
“I’m cluttered with tidbits,” it screams.
So what’s the solution pray tell
That will free me from info-stress hell?
Turn off ev’ry machine
And device? That sounds mean
And quite limiting. Not a good sell!
Is there anything else I can do?
I suppose I could hide in the loo.
But alas and alack,
That room has a stack
Of old weeklies — a factoid fondue.
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Update: The first Friday of March is the National Day of Unplugging.
Tags: Anxiety Humor, Brain Humor, Computer Humor, Data Humor, Info Overload, Information Overload, March Holidays, National Day of Unplugging, October Holidays, Odd Holidays, Stress Humor, Techno-Stress, Technology Humor
A solution’s at hand, it would seem,
To the data that’s haunting your dream.
Your phone has an app
To deprive you of pap.
The “Off” button’s not too extreme.
What’s the solution
To too much information?
Turn it off and toss it away
Would be extreme, I’ll say
Just use moderation! :)
All that information overload
why not a little interlude?
where it’s rather dark
and TV cannot bark
find the peace where you conclude
— ha.. not very good.
ha. we def need our breaks from tech
to just step away and be
I am a member of the “tech generation” and I have to say, I entirely agree. Too many of us live our lives through screens.
Very well written! I totally agree, way too much technology in our lives! :-)
Thanks so much everyone for your lovely comments!