This social network was set up to discuss issues raised in the book Information Obesity, published by Chandos in April 2009. The book is about how technological change, and the ways we organise our lives, are affecting our ability to learn by using the informational resources all around us. Teaching, if done in certain ways, and community activity are suggested as the ways in which we can reverse this process. For more information see this network's accompanying "Web 1.0" site at http://www.informationobesity.com.

It's not intended to be a network to discuss physical obesity, exercise, fitness, diet, etc. - there are plenty of other networks and discussion fora for that.