I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.
I was wondering if this had a term.
And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?
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A Spotify user.
A data eschewer
Luddite
Nah, the Luddites would’ve been on our side - they would’ve been extremely concerned about the offloading of storage and media access to a few private entities.
Weird
PM
Data Disposer
Someone who has everything in the cloud, except for their OS, so their device requires the absolute minimum of storage
Every common user is the opposite.
They dont care about their data. They let others care about it for them.They dont check if their emails from 209 are still in their mailbox.
They dont care if the photos from 2020 vacations are in their new phone.
They dont save photos to their computer, ever.
they dont have their songs saved anywhere else than in their spotify.
They dont realize the vidoes on their youtube playlist are gone missing.
They let corpos manage their data and hope thae data will still be there no matter how they dont care personally.
Such a disgusting way to live…
I’d use a term like ‘non-collector’ which I work with a lot of people who just go home and watch streaming services, some even play videogames on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass and don’t actually buy anything to own. At all.
They spend their money on food and travel, and don’t collect anything. I guess that’s the opposite of us?
BBC.
There are people who constantly pay for movies, music, and other data but constantly lose it or don’t keep track of it. Only to buy it again and again. They also subscribe to multiple streaming services.
The data minimalist is going to be so bored when the zombie apocalypse/crash of the economy/Mad Maxx in real life starts and they don’t have a PB of TV Shows and movies to keep them entertained over the next 80-100 years. Lol
It’s called Yahoo.com. Every archivist on the Internet gets Vietnam War flashbacks whenever one of their websites shows up in the news.
You should rest easy then knowing that at any moment the drive could break and lose everything. It will delete stuff for you.
I’m 72, I would have loved the convenience of photos that we have today. Have some photos of youth, but cameras, film, developing, cost, etc was a pain. And even then quality of photos weren’t that great.