I was just uploading some pictures to my photobucket account when a quote from Dean Leonen popped into mind. It goes, "my life can fit in 10GB of space..." or something to that effect.
With technology growing at such a high level and still rising, one can't help but notice that people's lives can easily be stored in PCs, Macs, digicams, cellphones, and even tiny flashdrives. Our documents (birth certificates, titles to property, SPAs, TCGs, etc.), our pictures, our work, our music: these and so much more digital data have become an integral part of us.
These files aren't merely for our daily consumption anymore. Rather, they've become a part of us; and, just as glossy pictures used to serve as everyone's memorabilia of choice, these .doc, .jpg, .mp4 and .mpg files will eventually keep us preoccupied in our old age as we reminisce on years past.
This is why computer viruses and PC crashes are so scary. When such catastrophic events occur to our gadgets, we lose not only vital digital information but also, a big part of us. For people who do not back up their files, how would they recover that cameraphone-captured picture of their first kiss, or that YM conversation with a secret crush, or that voice recording of a loved one who has passed away?
This is why I don't just back up my files on separate drives, but I also save files on sites such as photobucket and facebook. These pieces of infromation are too precious to lose to a freak PC crash. The only problem is, sites can crash too... What happens when murphy's law takes effect and everything is lost? What happens when a life crashes?
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