Social media, with its ability to archive data, creates a digital memory. On these platforms, young people can store their life experiences, thoughts, and memories in digital format, creating a timeline of their lives through posts, photos, videos, and other types of content, allowing them to easily access past memories. This digital archive enables individuals to reflect on their personal journeys, significant events, and emotional experiences. In this way, a sense of continuity and a record and archive of life stories are formed.

Şule comments on her great unhappiness and forgetting of many things. Thinking that time is running away and she has little control over her life, she experiences great loss and pain. By now, she thinks of social media as an anchor—at least for remembering her background. She stores and accumulates the things she loves and is interested in about herself there. Şule describes this situation as a form of hoarding and unnecessary collecting. Because she feels that memories and, consequently, her life are slipping away, she says she collects these moments as images. She adds that she is not new to collecting. She cut her purple hair and stored it in a box in high school before she began wearing a headscarf. That hair now resides in the same box alongside pictures and objects from other significant events.