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(32,324 posts)They are on my shit list. I am well aware of how they feel entitled to have a "youth culture." Also, after they bought up YouTube, my YouTube account got "disappeared."
This is of real concern. It is the big computer firms like google that tell us all to "go into the cloud. Really, truly, trust us, you can go into the cloud." And computers are not even made with storage devices any more.
So what happens if I go into the cloud and the company that owns that cloud disappears my cloud account? As a writer, this would be disastrous. (On my Youtube account, all I lost was the ability to know which videos I had "favorited" in a three year period. I liked knowing that list, but it was not a life and death matter as my writing can be.)
Strangely, mysteriously 22 months into my YouTube account "not existing" it came back!! And I think the best explanation is that the old owners of YouTube let you have hyphens in your email accounts or your passwords, and then google didn't.
There was not a single person I could even get a hold of for some help, either. Back in the period before 2005, I was able to connect to various executives at Google about things I needed to know to write articles. And I didn't use a channel through the company - just a directory that was open to the public. It never took me more than three to eight hours to get a hold of anyone I needed at Google. (The executives called me back, sometimes on a Friday night.) And that is a distant memory, probably never to be re-implimented.