Better than the Hollywood movie …

Interesting take on the social media addiction. I’m more admiring the incredible acting from the girl around the 1 min 44 sec mark, where she somehow managed to instigate a long line of snot almost on demand. Emma Thompson eat your heart out …

I feel as if, technology-wise, we’ve gone full circle. I remember the days computers became more powerful, able to store more data, and allowing us to do more things. It became safer, or more convenient, to store our precious things electronically. Things like photos, music, scanned certificates, movies, work, and so on. Storing these things physically at home would be ‘less safe’. Electronically, you can copy it and back it up. But as we begin hoarding things – like years of photos and music – our the act of backing things up get more tiresome. So we neglect it. And with one simple virus, blue screen of death or hard disk fatality, all we treasured dearly – and thought was safely stored away – can be gone. Just because we can dump it en masse onto numerous USB sticks doesn’t mean it’s more protected. Often on the contrary.

Physically storing things like photo albums and CDs on a shelf at home suddenly seems a lot safer – at least they aren’t under constant attack by viruses, technical errors and other security threats. I mean, it’s not as if your home is being attacked by burglars or arsenists daily. Losing our main PC and almost our laptop has taught us over-dependency on our gadgets is a dangerous thing …