Are You a Digital Hoarder?

I save absolutely everything I create digitally . I have MD entitle “ copy of transcript of written matter of transcript , ” lest I lose an early version . I obsessively screenshot material that strikes me as funny or disgraceful . You are either like me or you are not . How maintain is your digital life ?

I also save too much in Real Life , so there ’s probably a correlation . While I ’m not at a reality - show level of billboard , I ’ve always had problem throwing things off . If you ’re not a hoarder in the slightest , it ’s concentrated to explain the mindset . It ’s not about being lazy or mussy ; it ’s about assigning outsize emotional time value to objects . economy retentiveness seems important , even if I do n’t revisit them often . On my computer , the same outlook prevail .

I have grand upon thousands of email , read and unread , in my inbox . I have scores of folders arrest an almost uncountable figure of picture . I have 100 of docs with drafts of posts and stories . These day I ’m better about backing stuff up , but I still recall about former pre - cloud computing machine in the closet and how I ’d care to rescue their data . I am quite certain that I have never deleted anything except by chance event or because a gimmick was running entirely out of outer space .

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I ’m not going to claim this is the sound way to live , or that I would n’t often prefer a great sense of administration . But I find it more comforting to have all of this stuff rather than not . I know I ’m not alone .

I also make love my habit are meet with repugnance by others — the variety of masses who habitually crystallise out their inbox , have a unclouded desktop , delete excess pictures , keep only the final copy of a papers . Do you maintain a tidy digital imprint ? Or are you more like me ?

Image via TLC ’s Hoarders

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