"If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it really fall?"- an old saying
I read a Wall Street article on digital hoarding. It talks about how people never get rid of email, photos, files, etc.
I found the article interesting. In my life I have been around folks who collected "stuff". I worked with people who had lockers full of junk. One former colleague of mine had piles and piles of paper in his office that looked like they would fall down with the smallest breeze. Or my favorite is when I see a person in a car with all of the other seats full of literal junk driving down the street.
Those instances are examples of physical hoarding. To me digital hoarding does not hurt anyone except the person that hoards the stuff. They are not the same.
So what if they have files from 20 years ago? Digital storage is almost free. Can you imagine the cost of 1Terabyte of storage 20 years ago? Now probably for less than $100 you can store so much data. Again, there is a big difference between data and information. They have data that they might never turn into information. The challenge is to find something you are looking for that was received but "misplaced".
Today's question is:
"If an unread email arrives, and it just sits in your storage, was it ever received?"
I read a Wall Street article on digital hoarding. It talks about how people never get rid of email, photos, files, etc.
I found the article interesting. In my life I have been around folks who collected "stuff". I worked with people who had lockers full of junk. One former colleague of mine had piles and piles of paper in his office that looked like they would fall down with the smallest breeze. Or my favorite is when I see a person in a car with all of the other seats full of literal junk driving down the street.
Those instances are examples of physical hoarding. To me digital hoarding does not hurt anyone except the person that hoards the stuff. They are not the same.
So what if they have files from 20 years ago? Digital storage is almost free. Can you imagine the cost of 1Terabyte of storage 20 years ago? Now probably for less than $100 you can store so much data. Again, there is a big difference between data and information. They have data that they might never turn into information. The challenge is to find something you are looking for that was received but "misplaced".
Today's question is:
"If an unread email arrives, and it just sits in your storage, was it ever received?"
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