On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9:31:12 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 3:26:45 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:21:19 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> > > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 11:20:10 PM UTC-4, sf wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:14:12 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Pinterest is Evil and very unfriendly It's best just not to visit
> > > > > > thew site at all. It's mostly stuff lifted from elsewhere on the Web.
> > > > >
> > > > > That's exactly what it is intended to be. It's an online bulletin
> > > > > board. See a link you want to remember, save it to a focused board on
> > > > > Pinterest. If you have no interests that you want to save links to,
> > > > > then Pinterest isn't for you.
> > > >
> > > > Um, that's why my browser has a "bookmark" feature.
> > >
> > > heh That's exactly what I thought when I read her post this morning.
> > > People need to focus on saving valuable info on their OWN COMPUTERS and
> > > backups, not on internet places that eventually disappear. Same thing
> > > with saving pictures online.
> >
> > The need to store files on a local computer is certainly a quaint, old-fashioned notion. I suppose that it might make some sense in this modern world - but only if you have dial-up.
>
> It's about privacy and control. I don't want to relinquish either.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

That's an attitude born of the technical limitations of an era. Back in the old days, important files were backed up on tapes and stored in a remote location. This still holds true today except that the files are not put on tapes, placed in a vehicle, and driven away.

As far as your files that you want to control, it's going to end up in the same place as my father-in-law's backup tapes are - stored in our bedroom or some other dusty, forgotten, place. Eventually, it's going to the dump. Perhaps it'll be dug up a hundred years or more and archaeologists will try to read the data and business of people long dead.