The Psychology of Digital Hoarding and How to Break the Habit
There’s a particular guilt that comes with staring at an RSS reader filled with thousands of unread articles. You know you should read them. You subscribed to those feeds because the content mattered to you at some point. Yet there they sit, accumulating like digital dust, each unread item a small reminder that you’re somehow falling behind. This feeling has a name. It’s called digital hoarding, and it affects nearly everyone who uses any kind of content aggregation tool. We save articles we’ll never read. We subscribe to feeds we barely check. We accumulate content with the vague intention of getting to it someday, even though someday rarely arrives. ...