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Digital hoarding (also known as e-hoarding) is excessive acquisition and reluctance to delete electronic material no longer valuable to the user. The behavior includes the mass storage of digital artifacts and the retainment of unnecessary or irrelevant electronic data. The term is increasingly common in pop culture, used to describe the habitual characteristics of compulsive hoarding, but in cyberspace. As with physical space in which excess items are described as "clutter" or "junk," excess digital media is often referred to as "digital clutter."〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.trendmicro.co.uk/media/resource_lib/general/putting-an-end-to-digital-clutter-en.pdf )〕 == Virtual spaces == Digital hoarding occurs in any electronic spaces where information is stored. These are common areas where digital clutter may exist: * Browser tabs * Excessive Desktop icons * Digital photographs * Old documents * Electronic file folders * Email inboxes * Internet bookmarks no longer being referenced * Music and movie files * Old software/computer programs/apps no longer being used A cluttered email inbox arises when a user does not have a system for archiving some messages and deleting others that are no longer wanted. Electronic documents can become clutter if a user does not delete extraneous files, or if the files are poorly organized (e.g. inconsistent folder structure, empty folders). Some social media platforms also provide opportunity for digital hoarding. On the social networking site Facebook, for example, one can accumulate a vast number of “friends” that may merely be acquaintances or lapsed contacts. Groups and Pages can also contribute to clutter when users join and like new ones, respectively, without leaving or unfollowing those in which they are no longer interested.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Digital hoarding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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