Are You a Digital Hoarder?
A step-by-step guide to decluttering your digital life and building a second brain.
‘Digital Hoarding’
It is not just our homes and living spaces that become cluttered with unnecessary things. Our devices become spaces which accumulate digital clutter, which makes us lose focus on what is actually important. We all need to go on a digital diet because all of us have become ‘digital hoarders’ in one sense or another. In fact, the term ‘digital hoarding’ is already being used by medical professionals to describe:
‘the act of collecting or consuming an excessive amount of digital material which leads individuals experiencing stress or disorganisation’.
In 2009, Roger Bon and James Short from the University of California, San Diego measured the information consumption of an average American and found out that:
In 2008, Americans consumed about 1.3 trillion hours of information outside of work, an average of almost 12 hours per person per day. Media consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 1,080 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for the average person on an average day.
This study was conducted in 2008 and to remind you, this was just a year after the very first model of iPhone was…
