It happens. You hit the wrong button and your life changes – dramatically. One minute you have 100’s of contacts in your phone, all the important birthdays and anniversaries, travel plans, meetings and dentist appointments firmly locked in. And in a nanosecond it is all gone. Your life – wiped out, right in front of you.
Your heart doesn’t even have time to sink. You need to re-synch your life and you go into battle mode. You go into your email account (yes, I was lucky) and send an email to everyone you think you might ever want to call or send a Christmas card to and ask them to resend their details. You status update on Facebook that you’ve lost everyone’s phone numbers and see who bites.
Next thing you know you’re receiving mucho sympathy and lots of catch up info. People you haven’t heard from in months are responding, using the opportunity to touch base. And you think – isn’t this a great way to reconnect? What if you didn’t actually lose all that data and just pretended you did? Wanted to see who was out there who really cared. Who your real friends were…or not?
By the way: If you do think I need your phone number and/or address, please email me your info at kazzadrask@yahoo.com.
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
