In 2013, we took the kids on a mandatory family fun day to a state park we had never visited before. It was miserable.
Flooding made parts of the park inaccessible, it was colder than we anticipated, and there were these bizarre gnats that incessantly flocked my husband.
While we were assessing our options over a packed lunch, I pulled out my camera and took a few pics. But the picture of the day that I loved the most was on my phone. I snapped it shortly after this when I pulled my phone out to make a backup plan.
It was a snap of just me and my baby and it was perfect. His cherubic cheeks and bright blue eyes, his face pressed to mine for a close-up selfie. I made it my screen saver on my phone and it brought me joy every time I looked at it, a moment captured in time of my sweet baby’s face and our relationship together.
an epic cartoon-worthy stumble
Two years later in an epic cartoon-worthy stumble, my phone flipped out of my hand and hit the corner of my coffee table in just such a fashion that it could no longer show graphics. It was done. I replaced the phone within a few days but the data was unrecoverable.
The picture that greeted me every day disappeared with the death of my phone.
I still have that phone. It sits in a bin waiting for someone to invent a way to recover the memory from it. It’s likely hopeless but, nevertheless, I keep it.
I kicked myself for a long time for not having a back-up of the pic or for never taking the time to print a copy.
If only I had saved it in a second place!
For many of us, our social media feed is that second place. If you’ve ever lost a phone, you may have inadvertently created a back-up plan through your posts. Congratulations, you haven’t lost your media! But only if you take the time to recover it now and save it from the tech graveyard.
