I love photobucket.com
I have a complicated relationship with computers. On the one hand, I can’t live without them: How would I write papers? Check my e-mail? Talk on AIM? Use Myspace/Facebook (although I really haven’t, lately)?
But on the other hand, I live in constant fear of a computer crash. I have so many important things on my computer: hundreds of pictures, all of my music, stories, and poetry and papers that I’ve written for fun and/or for school.
I am most paranoid about my pictures. Pictures contain memories; if I lose pictures, I risk losing memories. Which is simply unthinkable. And this is where photobucket.com steps in.
I have taken to uploading absolutely everything onto photobucket. It doesn’t matter if the pictures are crap. Online they go. Family vacations, photos I’ve taken just for fun, Myspace/Facebook pictures, photos stolen from other peoples’ albums on Facebook … I steal them all.
Now all I have to do is pray and hope that photobucket never crashes, and my pictures will be forever safe.
On the downside, though, I spend hours uploading things. I have such a backlog of pictures that I wonder if I will ever get through them all. And I must get through them all. I hate nothing more than incomplete albums on photobucket (of which I now have three).
But there are just so many pictures.
No matter. As long as there are pictures to be uploaded, photobucket will be my best friend. And after I get through the ones on my computer, I’ve still got baby pictures to tackle. Those will take even longer, considering that I’ll have to scan all of them in.
Wish me luck.
— Michelle Gao