Information Pollution is information overload taken to the extreme. It's where it stops being a burden and becomes an impediment to your ability to get your work done.
The entire ideology of information technology for the last 50 years has been that more information is better, that mass producing information is better, but the net is not so much a machine with all the answers instantly, it has mutated into a "procrastination apparatus", which spews information without much prioritisation. And e-mail is worse because it is a weird mix of personal and mass communication.
If people don't develop really harsh counter-measures, it will basically destroy their ability to use the computer in any productive way and it becomes the ruler of your time... Ultimately, time is a non-renewable resource.
Once that day is gone, it is never coming back.
Jakob Nielsen
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