The Spanish have digital Diogenes Syndrome

More than half of Spaniards prefer to erase a photograph of a landscape or of friends than theirs to free space

    Mobiles increasingly have more memory and SD cards have solved one of the main problems faced by Spanish users: the lack of space. However, the other obstacle once reached the limit is to choose what to delete and more than half of the Spanish prefer to delete a nice photograph or a video to free space.

In the event that there is no other remedy and a file needs to be deleted, one in four users would prefer to delete a photo of their friends than of themselves, pets or family, as revealed by SanDisk's latest research.

"In Spain, the average is that a person takes 20 photos and six videos per week with their mobile phone," said Senior Product Marketing Manager for Western Digital, Patricia Corcoran, in a statement.

34% of respondents claim to run out of space on their mobile phone at least once a month and 45% at least every three months. From the research, it also follows that 38% of people have to delete files or data from their phones at least once a week, while 74% do so at least once a month.

The amount of audiovisual content is combined with the size of digital images and videos, which increases "rapidly", which means that "devices fill up quickly", as Corcoran pointed out.

In addition to storage challenges, the research also analyzed security. 71% of respondents are quite or very concerned that the files and data on their phone are at risk of theft or loss due to a product malfunction, and 46% say they have lost an important photo or video from their phone for not having a backup.

Despite this, only a quarter of Spaniards make a manual copy of their data and files from their phone once a week. 15% never make a copy of everything, excluding automatic copies and data synchronization.