Can we see information overload by age group?

I was reading yesterday about how the problem of "information overload" isn't recognized by the youth of today -- the digital natives, if you will.  It made me think that maybe we older people feel overloaded because we need to take the time to reflect on all this information and hang it off our mental frameworks.  We need to mull it over and then make decisions about whether it passes muster.  It takes more time to evaluate so we're more apt to feel an overload.

Digital natives don't have a non-digital past to overcome.  No command line interfaces to compare things to.  No bowling leagues instead of twitter.  There are just fewer comparisons to make and less previous experience to filter the new reality through.

I have no idea if this is true or how to measure it if it were, but I thought the notion merited a blog entry.  I'm doing my part to clutter the minds of the young.  :)