I keep waiting for the backlash. The people will rise up and say “Enough! My brain can’t handle any more information! I don’t care that you just had a bean burrito, much less do I want a little bird to tweet that fact to me.” Instead, we keep getting more and more status, blogging, micro-blogging, favorites, currently-listening-to and currently-reading online apps—almost every day, it seems. Now, instead of examining our need to know EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME, we’re inventing ways to manage that information. Enter FriendFeed and it’s ilk.

ReadWriteWeb has what seemed to start out as a much-needed (in my opinion) examination of the necessity of all these services, but it ended up being a recommendation for where FriendFeed should end up and how it could be more useful. I’ll tell you how it could be more useful—by not being necessary. I naturally gravitate towards wanting to know as much as possible about as much as possible. I love to figure out how things work and learn new skills. But my brain is crying “Uncle!”, and I don’t even have a FaceBook, MySpace, or Twitter account. It almost seems as if we are creating information merely for the sake of creating new ways to share and manage it.

The irony of actually blogging about this does not escape me. There is great appeal on both sides of the equation—sharing information about oneself and digesting information about others. What I’m calling for is a little perspective. Do I really need four websites to let people know that I think the new Panic at the Disco single is HAWT? (For clarity’s sake, I couldn’t name a PatD song if even if caught in a panic at a disco.) I’m hopeful that this perspective is being forced on us by economic reality—apparently even the mighty Google cannot find a way to capitalize on millions of pageviews per month on MySpace. Bubbles seem to be the theme of the 2000s so far, and I’m thinking we’re at the edge of a social site bubble. The good news is that bursting this bubble will really only hurt the extreme narcissists and possibly a few venture capitalists. And I’m guessing there might even be a little overlap there.