It is true that I am not very tech savvy. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that I am a tech-dummy. So why am I suddenly interested in Cloud?

Basically, I think it interests me because everyone I know stores their data in it.

I’m usually behind when it comes to technology and this is one of those times. I have been afraid of cloud technology since it came out.

My concerns centered on the fact that nothing on the Internet is really safe even though they keep telling us it is. My rationale has been that if hackers like WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks could hack hundreds of thousands of classified government documents and access all kinds of banking information, nothing on the Internet is safe.

I have also feared that my data will be lost in cloud storage. There have been too many occasions when I have sent a document that has been lost in an internet black hole, or someone is sending me a document while we are both sitting in front of our computers and it has been lost in the ethers.

I recently saved my music to a cloud that is probably floating somewhere. It took me a week to store it and since then I have not been able to find it. I know it’s out there somewhere; I just don’t know how to get it down to earth and put it on my laptop.

And after I saved my music to the disappearing cloud, I heard that one of those cloud data storage facilities was shutting down and their customers were being asked to make other storage arrangements.

I saw a lot of posts and it sounded like controlled chaos. People were concerned about losing their data or that they had too much data to move quickly and efficiently. It sounded like a pandemonium judging by the intensity of the posts he was reading.

When I see things like this happen to the newest and best in technology, I’m glad I’m not so smart about it. It makes me move a lot slower until a lot of the bugs are resolved before buying the latest device.

I think I’ll stick with my multi-color floppy backup system. At least I can see them. I can’t see my music in the cloud so I’m not even sure it’s there, but floppy disks? Those that I can see.