accumulating
digital material
stress, anxiety
Based on the article, I save all my texts and photos. But do I really need them? by Adrian Horton, who writes:
I don’t have this compulsion to save in the physical realm, where I regularly purge outdated, irrelevant items with little thought. But I am sentimental, and identify with what experts call “digital hoarding” – accumulating excess digital material to the point of causing stress and anxiety.
I don’t have this compulsion to save in the physical realm, where I regularly purge outdated, irrelevant items with little thought.
But I AM sentimental, and identify with what experts call “digital hoarding” – accumulating excess digital material to the point of causing stress and anxiety.
I checked my cloud and I can count 11 zip folders of images downloaded over the years from different phones I have owned.
If I un zip them, I have huge folders of images, images that I want to keep … I think.
My solution is to create free gmail addresses to get free 15GB Gdrives to store these files … which take time to upload.
Then I have to remember the email addresses and which files are where and the password and when everything is uploaded do I still dare delete these files from my laptop .. which is dieing anyway.
Doing all of this has me to the point of causing stress and anxiety.
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