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Are you a digital hoarder? Inside growing disorder of never deleting
NY Post ^ | 4/18/23 | Jon Mac

Posted on 04/18/2023 12:30:24 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Disgraced fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried — the notorious SBF — just may be a digital hoarder.

According to a recent Business Insider report, the laptop of the former FTX CEO is flooded with so much data that FBI officials are working overtime to analyze the content.

But SBF is far from alone in his apparent reluctance to depart with copious amounts of data.

In fact, digital hoarding — a subtype of hoarding disorder that involves the collection of, and difficulty parting with, excessive amounts of digital material — is a growing problem in the US and beyond.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) recognizes hoarding disorder as a mental illness

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: digital; hoarding; internet; jimknowsdonors
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To: al baby

Yep, about as much credibility.


41 posted on 04/18/2023 3:37:59 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: DallasBiff

Who has time to clean these up?


42 posted on 04/18/2023 4:04:58 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: DallasBiff

Most of my HD space is for games. Some use 100GB or more each.


43 posted on 04/18/2023 4:15:07 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: DallasBiff

Naked I came into this world without digital and naked I will leave it without digital.


44 posted on 04/18/2023 4:16:26 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DallasBiff

there are many folders in my machine. i have a folder of vid’s to watch once. i have movies, music, information, a copy of all of my documents - thumb drives too, bunchds of digital artworks, memes, all my deplorable stuff, muriad of interests-to include the animal attendant scrubbing the green off an albino alligator .. a little to the left, please?
once im done, i delete.


45 posted on 04/18/2023 4:25:23 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: DallasBiff

Frankly my dear, I don’t GIVE a damn how may unanswered emails I have. The more the box fills the less room there is for mindless drivel. I only use it for product research and ONLY check it if I’m expecting something NOW. OTHERWISE...I have other things to do in real life.


46 posted on 04/18/2023 4:39:02 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: DallasBiff

So not clearing out you spam folder is a “disorder” but mutilating you genital because you want to pretend to be the opposite sex is not...,


47 posted on 04/18/2023 5:23:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DallasBiff

I have files on Bernoulli and Zip Disks but not the means to read them.


48 posted on 04/18/2023 5:26:51 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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