We create bytes to revisit, relive, make sense of the events or experiences at a later date. Real, hopeful or anticipated, once we digitize something, its there to stay.
Stay
To keep bytes from losing, we employ ingenious strategies. We make copies, tag-em, bag-em, sort-em, order-em, file-em, or in many ways archive-em. Sending ourselves e-mails, burn DVD's, copy on USB drives, or store them safely on the cloud so that if we need them in the future, we will have them.
By just trying not to lose we compound the problem of a large number of bytes we create.
Speed
We are a hugely impatient lot when it comes to browsing. When we say for instance, keep 1000 photos on instagram or icloud or facebook, we cannot wait a couple of seconds for the poor site to bring it up. Now to give us our pictures really fast, these sites do something ingenious, they break down the pictures into smaller blurry images and throw them at you so you have something to work with.
You guessed it right- that added more bytes. now you had large crisp files to store, not lose them and keep them coming your way fast so you multiplied them up.
Pry-proof
Some of us dont like others watching our pictures, especially while we are moving them over the internet- so we do something called encryption. This in effect adds a dark screen over your pictures while moving your bytes from one point to another. Even though this is not a huge addition, you temporarily create a mini monster for a short duration of time, that is created, stored, transmitted in a pry-proof manner.
So now you see, we have built a capacity to create digital monsters, fearing losses, we pad them to weather time and prying eyes; to overcome our impatience, miniaturize them. Now our already big and growing data got bigger and grew some more.
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