The Digital Afterlife
This shit we’re creating will live longer than we will
When I lost my job in December of 2017, I wasn’t entirely upset. I was tired of doing the whole office thing and honestly, I was kind of excited to have an excuse to take some time for myself. I saw it as a chance to finally do some things I had put off due to the inconvenience of being gainfully employed.
It’s really hard to get around to certain projects when you work a regular nine-to-five. Sure, you have the weekends but those are spent cleaning the house, doing the grocery shopping, or running after the kids. There are simply some things you will never get around to doing without a protracted length of free time in which to do them. Organizing your digital photos is one of those projects.
I assumed that with unlimited free time, I would whip through this little exercise in organization in a couple of weeks — max. Would it surprise you to know that I’m still working on it four years later?
See, the problem is not that I am lazy or slow. It’s not that I have so many photos that the organization takes years (okay maybe that’s part of the problem). The problem is that our digital lives have become overwhelming areas of our life that never, ever stop. In the modern world, we never stop creating digital products. I mean, how many photos do you currently have on the camera roll…
