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90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone.
The volume of data created by US companies alone each year is enough to fill ten thousand libraries of Congress.
Most companies only analyze 12 percent of the data they have.
The world on the internet continues to grow, which is why new terms have emerged such as digital hoarders. Given this, experts are highlighting this as digital hoarding disorder that involves collecting excessive amounts of digital material and having difficulty getting rid of it.
Data is undoubtedly one of the information provided by the use of the internet and many consider it as another world and this is due to the fact that we currently spend an average of 10 hours a day online. According to Hootsuite’s Digital 2022 study, Mexico is among the top 10 countries that spend the most time in this activity.
In this context, the information that a person generates daily by just entering the internet can be important for many companies, which is why the Latin American Analytical Center (CALA) defines them as a gold mine for businessmen and strategists.
There are innumerable sources of data, for example, a working machine generates data, or also the information that accumulates with administrative processes, transaction history, external data such as behavior patterns of a sector or the economy, among other digital forms. .
According to Data iq, 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone. Where the volume of data generated by US companies alone each year is enough to fill ten thousand libraries of Congress.
Are you a digital hoarder?
A report has revealed a disorder that is reaching especially the new generations, such as digital hoarders.
It all stemmed from the arrest of scammer Sam Bankman-Fried, who may be reportedly a digital hoarder.
According to reports, the former FTX CEO’s laptop is inundated with so much data that FBI officials are working overtime to analyze the content.
Before these specialists, they indicate that this is a growing problem in the United States and beyond.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) recognizes hoarding disorder as a mental illness.
Also, according to work by technology researcher Maitrik Kataria and colleagues at digital products engineering firm Simform, the average American has at least 40 apps installed on their phone, but uses less than 50 percent of them.
Data also indicates that millions of Americans have inboxes with more than a hundred unread emails. And about 60 percent of Americans never delete any image or video from any of their digital devices.
The same research said that the collection and storage of digital content tends to increase as our “number of technological steps” increases.
When it comes to this fairly new phenomenon, not all generations are affected equally. The study revealed that they compared the digital hoarding behaviors of Generation X, which they define as those born between 1965 and 1980, and millennials, who were born after 1980.
“We found that both groups showed symptoms of digital hoarding,” he noted.
However, Millennials showed “much stronger digital hoarding trends.” With the younger generations, especially the digital natives, it is logical to expect even higher levels of hoarding behavior.
“When one suffers from the symptoms of digital hoarding, constant acquisition, difficulty discarding, propensity for disorder, there is a high probability that they experience adverse mental or psychological conditions,” they explain.
In short, digital hoarding was relatively common, but there seemed to be different ‘types’ of digital hoarding, with their hoarding being driven by different reasons.
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