Many people, especially ones who are not computer-freaks or addicted to Internet, can be overwhelmed with the amount of information spread by such an online virtual networking platform such as SpidERA. I mean because we do more than LinkedIn in the sense that we aim to have LSH content, then the amount of information is large and will grow in orders of magnitude as the number of subscribers grow.

Sometime people, often many Academia people (if I may base on my personal experience with them) are "control-freaks". It means that in order to fully participate, or contribute, or embrace - they have to know everything, read all blogs, understand everything and be totally up-to-date. For them, and frankly for most of us people, when we cannot cope with such amount we are frustrated and often tend to give up on the system.

One way to control the flood is the ability to subscribe only to those issues that are of interest, but still this can still bring too much information. Also if the subscriber does not "work" daily and catch up on a daily basis, it is happening then when he/she sees the amount of new info gathered while not been there, the frustration even increases.

So my question and wondering, how we can "teach" people to feel convenient with the stream, and eliminate the frustration?

I can think as an example of a river of information, and a thirsty person who is "interested in water" if I may say so ;-) Of course the person will not drink the whole river but only take small sips from it, and still be satisfied.

Can we teach/preach for such a behaviour, meaning tell our users that it's not the end of the world if they missed things in this flow. How can we do it? Is it important at all or am I talking BS? :)