Article: 'Digital Hoarding': A New Disorder?

[Ultralight]

Worth a read...

http://www.hngn.com/articles/155511/20151130/digital-hoarding-a-new-disorder.htm

[Gardenarian]

It sounds as though the maintenance and sorting of digital images etc. Is more of a problem than the actual collecting. It seems to me a kind of screen addiction, which is all too common.

I use Pinterest a bit, and there are people with hundreds of thousands of pins; they must be at the computer all day. A lot people seem to want tons of followers, whether in Facebook, Pinterest , Tumble, Instagram, et all. I don't quite get that.

[Ultralight]

Pinterest , Tumble, Instagram, et all. I don't quite get that.

I call it Pinstagramblr.

[SteveinMN]

I'm not sure why they're singling out a particular form of hoarding. But then I see digital devices as enablers of human activity, good or bad. If this guy took the pictures with a film camera, printed them out in his own darkroom, and papered the walls of house with them, the powers that be wouldn't be tripping over themselves to add a diagnosis to DSM. >8)

[kib]

To me, the fact of his obsession with chronicling the minutia of his life (on' film', in this case) is the disorder. I'm guessing not about hoarding, but about a need to tether himself to his own reality and possibly his own worth. This is mine, this is what i saw, this is what i did, what I read, who I met, what I thought, what I bought. The fact that he spends hours cataloging it is just good maintenance. :~)

[JaneV2.0]

Everything is a disorder according to someone. The trick is not to give a damn what anyone thinks.

[bae]

Everything is a disorder according to someone. The trick is not to give a damn what anyone thinks.

+1

[iris lilies]

Digital hoarding on a single human scale is hard to get up in arms about unless that person shares my computer.

[kib]

Everything is a disorder according to someone. The trick is not to give a damn what anyone thinks. Meh, I'm in a mood and I don't know him. Psychotic, I say. ;)