手机内存满了还不愿意删除？你可能有“数字囤积”症

Digital hoarding (also known as e-hoarding, data hoarding or cyber hoarding) is excessive acquisition and reluctance to delete electronic material no longer valuable to the user.

Antoinette, 25, said, “I don’t think I could ever delete the WhatsApp chat with my ex-boyfriend. It’s interesting looking back at the start of the relationship so many years ago and who I was then versus now, and I can see how the relationship changed.”

For Lauren, 28, who has 58,000 photos in her camera roll, these feelings are familiar. “My camera roll is largely taken up by throwaway selfies, memories that should be offloaded onto storage devices, memes and screenshots I never get around to deleting,” she tells me. “I’ve been meaning to delete the screenshots but I always get a bit overwhelmed when I go into that folder, so there they remain.”

83 bookmarks

7 open tabs in their browser

15 unread emails

13 unused phone apps

2 unused or broken cell phones

20 desktop icons

209 GB of cloud storage

Digital files, folders, music, movies, computer programs, and even the “friends” we keep on social media are also forms of digital clutter.

Both undergraduates and graduates expressed feeling overwhelmed with the sheer volume of technological detritus: lecture notes, PowerPoint slides, PDFs of research, snapshots of classroom whiteboards — not to mention their own ever-swelling Facebook friends they didn’t know but were afraid of unfriending.

My first home screen is filled with apps I use every day – Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Outlook, Weather, etc. My second home screen has apps that I don't use quite as much, but still want within easy reach -- billing apps, shopping, and smart home apps.

My third home screen is where things get chaotic and out of control, just a mess of games, work and business-related apps, and a ton of miscellaneous crap that I keep telling myself I'll need for that one thing on that one day that has never come and probably never will.

“Collectors” are organized, systematic and in control of their data. “Accidental hoarders” are disorganized, don’t know what they have, and don’t have control over it. The “compliant hoarder” keeps data on behalf of their company. Finally, “anxious hoarders” have strong emotional ties to their data — and are worried about deleting it.

People are more resistant when it comes to actually getting rid of their cherished possessions — perhaps because they “anthropomorphize” them, treating inanimate objects as if they had thoughts and feelings.