Too much!

When is it right to consider the news items you get in RSS feeds too much?

What do you think is the right frequency to check those feeds?

When is it a right time to get off the bandwagon and join the real life?

How much of the general discussion that goes-on on Slashdot or techmeme is relevant anyway?

Well there is no straightforward answer to that. It’s more than what it should be when any of the following happens.

• You dread opening the reader of your choice if you have been away from the aforementioned reader for more than a day.
  • Reason: you basically are afraid of the huge amount of unread item count that you are afraid that you are gonna miss out on some important nugget of information that you want going through all the junk that’s posted there.
• You repeatedly recheck for any new feed content every five minutes and there is none.
  • You should stop doing that. Simple. Stop it.
• Whenever you feel a disconnect between the facts that you know and the fact other people are talking about is probably a good time to get to the real world.
  • And by other people I mean normal folk who do not work in computer related business.