{"id":15325,"date":"2024-07-29T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/29\/i-save-all-my-texts-and-photos-but-do-i-really-need-them\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T14:37:20","slug":"i-save-all-my-texts-and-photos-but-do-i-really-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/29\/i-save-all-my-texts-and-photos-but-do-i-really-need-them\/","title":{"rendered":"I save all my texts and photos. But do I really need them?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day, I generate more digital stuff my older self might like to look back on \u2013 but there\u2019s no way to manage it all<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I faced an unexpected conundrum: there were only a handful of decent phone repair stores in New York, and even fewer willing and able to work on a 2010 Blackberry. There was exactly no one sympathetic to my plight, which was that I had<\/em> to get my broken and long-out-of-service phone working again, <\/em>because it held my high school text messages <\/em>that was crucial evidence of my life.<\/em><\/p>\n

For one brief, shining moment, the Blackberry had actually turned on. I scrolled through my long-lost inbox, looking for little forgotten treasures: written confirmation of teenage heartbreak, maybe, or records of lust, ennui, thrill, my eating disorder. But I didn\u2019t find much. Mostly, I texted about homework.<\/p>\n

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\nEvery day, I generate more digital stuff my older self might like to look back on \u2013 but there\u2019s no way to manage it all
\nA few years ago, I faced an unexpected conundrum: there were only a handful of decent phone repair stores in New York, and even fewer willing and able to work on a 2010 Blackberry. There was exactly no one sympathetic to my plight, which was that I had to get my broken and long-out-of-service phone working again, because it held my high school text messages that was crucial evidence of my life.
\nFor one brief, shining moment, the Blackberry had actually turned on. I scrolled through my long-lost inbox, looking for little forgotten treasures: written confirmation of teenage heartbreak, maybe, or records of lust, ennui, thrill, my eating disorder. But I didn\u2019t find much. Mostly, I texted about homework. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every day, I generate more digital stuff my older self might like to look back on \u2013 but there\u2019s no way to manage it all A few years ago, I faced an unexpected conundrum: there were only a handful of decent phone repair stores in New York, and even fewer willing and able to work …<\/p>\n

I save all my texts and photos. But do I really need them?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}