Networked Knowledge Activities

Wondering here if anyone else is a digital hoarder like me?? I LOVE saving things. Even if I know that I will never look at it again, I will save it. Dr. Dennen's excerpt from Social Media for Active Learning uses the nicer term of "collector", but it still feels like digital hoarding to me. 

Just yesterday, I scrolled all the way to the bottom of my TikTok likes because I wanted to see how my likes had changed or not changed since I started using the app back in 2019. Surprisingly, most of the videos that I liked were still pretty on trend with my current likes. I still found the videos funny and even rediscovered some videos that I loved and had forgotten about. 

All of this to say, I know that I love saving and liking things because I am not one to share, construct or broker anything through social media. I am not creating videos on TikTok or YouTube and I rarely, if ever, post on Facebook. I will post on Instagram and Twitter more than anything else, but even then, I feel like it is less that others. 

We can learn a lot from the musings and postings of others and I think with that comes risk and reward. Social media has changed a lot in the last 10 years or so. I feel like we've even seen it change in the last year. I wonder how moving through the next decade will shape and influence us? 

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  1. nutsJune 18, 2022 at 2:52 PM

    I feel the same way. I also like making bookmarking folders and saving Youtube video playlists, but all these are private. Like you said, curating comes with risk and reward together, and hoarding is more comfortable for me as a lurker.

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