Are you a digital hoarder? Inside growing disorder of never deleting

NY Post ^ | 4/18/23 | Jon Mac

[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

[A strike]

Yep, about as much credibility.

[Hattie]

Who has time to clean these up?

[ArcadeQuarters]

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

[PeterPrinciple]

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

[Terry L Smith]

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.

[Qwapisking]

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.

[Organic Panic]

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...,

[Tijeras_Slim]

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