When in 1998 Hotmail came up with the new revolutionary new form of anonymous emailing, it just changed the way the entire way the worl communicated. With the internet boom, the email inevitably overtook the slower, less efficient form of mailing, it even came to be dubbed as snail-mail! Slowly, yahoo, rediff and million others came to the scene, and it was not unusual for one person to have more than 2 email addresses. The next phase of email revolution was started with gmail, which started offering 'unlimited space' and soon integrated the concept of instant messaging with the e-mail. There was nothing to stop the mammoth which had already been set loose. "Don't save any of your any old mails" stared down at u in BIG BOLD LETTERS whenever you opened you umpteen e-mail accounts. So u get unlimited space, instant messaging, autosaving of drafts, and obviously the ease and convenience of e-mail at your desktop. Cool, right?
I beg to differ. Its not at all COOL, when your account has just been hacked and all your emails and contacts have just been deleted. At times like these you start to wonder wouldn't it have been nice if you had maintained all your contacts in a nice, tidy little phonebook. You re-consider whether it would have been better for your own sanity if you had deleted some of your personal e-mails. All the lucrative advertising gimmicks come back to haunt you... Why me, why me of all the people.
The enormity of the situation keeps hitting you like waves of tsunami on the beach of your sanity, threatening to cause unprecedented devestation.
The author of this blog was last seen pulling her hair and feverishly working to try to retrieve her lost data...
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