Deleted!

I was browsing through my blogs @weebly when I suddenly had the urge to view my previous blogs at Friendster. I clicked on the link and was surprised to see that the page is unavailable.  Thinking it may be a network glitch, I tried refreshing the page for a couple of times to no avail.  Until it finally came to me that Friendster Blogsite does not exist anymore.

Damn it. I had used Friendster blogs since I started, well, blogging in 2002.  I had perhaps a hundred of so much fun, crazy, emotional and even freaky entries back there. 

I sent an email to the Friendster Team (admin) in high hopes that I would be helped out to get a chance to retrieve my blogs and the reply was:

Friendster Team: We're sorry but we can no longer retrieve old blogs. We gave you a chance to export them as early as April. You should have exported it then.

Shocked as I was with Friendster Team's "blaming" answer to my plea, my reply was: Hell yeah???!! How come I didnt even receive a notification email that the site was finally crashing for good? Don't you guys even have a heart to help your loyal users like me who had used your site for almost 7 years in each and every emotional outpour I had? What about all the memories I saved on that blog site? Doesn't anyone among your team know something not-so -technical called "back-up"?

I was like "crying over spilled milk".  I didn't know what to do and I felt so devastated. Felt like a significant part of me was forcefully taken away from me.

D E L E T E D.

Gone permanently.

So today, I learned that I cannot trust anything or anyone to back me up and that I always have to be responsible for my own stuff.  Nothing is really permanent.

Another lesson learned- the hard way. Ouch!!!

And for one thing,  I so hate you Friendster!