Title
Social Media and Information Overload: Survey Results.
Abstract
A UK-based online questionnaire investigating aspects of usage of user-generated media (UGM), such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, attracted 587 participants. Results show a high degree of engagement with social networking media such as Facebook, and a significant engagement with other media such as professional media, microblogs and blogs. Participants who experience information overload are those who engage less frequently with the media, rather than those who have fewer posts to read. Professional users show different behaviours to social users. Microbloggers complain of information overload to the greatest extent. Two thirds of Twitter-users have felt that they receive too many posts, and over half of Twitter-users have felt the need for a tool to filter out the irrelevant posts. Generally speaking, participants express satisfaction with the media, though a significant minority express a range of concerns including information overload and privacy.
Year
Venue
Field
2013
CoRR
Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Information overload,Social network,Social media,Computer science,Microblogging,Computer-assisted web interviewing,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1306.0813
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kalina Bontcheva12538211.33
Genevieve Gorrell226622.00
Bridgette Wessels3182.87