I use a Mac. I’ve been told it’s because I’m a girl. Do more women use Macs than men? Actually, now that I think about it, most of the people I know who are nerdy into computers are men, and they all have PCs. I’m sure that’s not a big enough sample size to constitute meaningful statistical data, but still. I know plenty of guys who use Apple products, too. Now that I think about it, however, many of them are hipsters. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! I’m going to stop here before I get myself in trouble!
Where was I going with that? Oh yeah. I use my computer for everything. I keep music on it. I have lots of photos. Bank statements. Papers from university. I use it to surf the net. I watch movies on it. I check Facebook a few times a day like everyone else. I would be upset if something were to happen to it, so I’ve decided I need to start backing my stuff up.
I know it’s standard computer using procedure: always make backups! I save my work when I’m working on it all the time. In fact, I’m kind of OCD about it. I’ll hit Command + S every few minutes or after I finish a really good sentence or something. But I haven’t ever backed up my hard drive. I want to look into Mac Cloud backup options because I figure that might be easier than having to get an external drive and worrying about keeping track of it. I know they’re not big but I have a tendency to misplace things. If I’m backing up on the “cloud” then there’s no actual physical thing to worry about. Plus, I can access my stuff from wherever I want. I see those commercials on the tele where they’re like “it’s on the cloud” and they always drive me nuts, but it might not actually be such a bad idea. But really, why not just say “online” instead?
Anyway, I like my computer. I think I’ll put it on my list to get this backup thing taken care of by the end of this week, otherwise I’ll keep putting it off and it will be one of those things that I always say I should do but never actually get around to doing, and this is the kind of thing that I want to do before I need it.