Web 2.0 running out of time to where?

So you all have a couple blogs and news sites you just have to check out each day. Not forgetting email, IM’ing (Instant Messaging) and your cellphone. If you don’t keep it all on, and connected, you get that aching feeling, that you are missing out on something. Especially when it comes to burdened world news, even after updating, in many cases you’ll actually feel worse. And you always feel like you don’t have time to relax, and your to-do list just keeps multiplying.

Source: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve

Web 2.0, has not exactly given you much more time. The fact that social networking is, exactly that, sociable, and without saying hi, you feel like you are letting someone down. And blogs, with an increasing amount of writers who actually write really useful information. At the pace at which new services, you can’t imagine how you lived with out before they existed, keeping appearing, making time for web 2.0 is becoming increasingly more difficult.

So the consequence of this is what? Well, firstly the odds are there, that you can’t just switch of you IM client, cellphone or RSS-ticker. Secondly the interval at which you are disturbed by each will vary. And this will ultimately reduce your productivity, be it work or relaxing. And yes, I believe relaxing is being productive (at worst, I think it secures future productivity?).

The graph so nicely displays time between interruptions, showing the historical development and the direction its heading. The curve is called The Asymptotic Twitter Curve, and displays how Twitter’s time between interruptions is close to zero. An asymptotic curve means a line approaches zero, but does not reach it at any specific distance. And Twitter, I just found out today, is yet another social network, but has one purpose: “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?”

Similar graphs could in general be drawn of new services and products being offered on the net. The growth is overwhelming, and as someone else wrote, I can’t remember where. Basically it means you are not fully attentive to anything anymore, only partially.
You might not want to hear it, but the solution I believe is probably to prioritize. At the same time, it will be interesting following how Web 2.0 will survive, as its very nature is time consuming.