The following statistics suggest that our culture is being subjected to information overload:

• 73 percent of adults now use a social networking site of some kind.
• The average American on social media platforms receives about 54,000 words and 443 minutes of video every day.
• More than one billion tweets are sent every hour, or about 100,000 tweets per minute.
• According to Twitter's calculations, a day's tweets are enough to write a 10 million-page book or 8,163 copies of Tolstoy's classic novel War and Peace (which runs about 1,300 pages).
• 20 million emails were sent in the time it took to say this sentence.
• 16 minutes of every hour is spent on social networking sites.

No wonder experts have now identified "Information Fatigue Syndrome" (or IFS), the fatigue of being overwhelmed by an incomprehensible and indigestible amount of information. The solution is what's called Digital Detox, which is defined as "a period of time during which a person restrains from using electronic devices so one can focus on social interaction in the physical world."