Norton says: What are you without your stuff?
Posted: October 11th, 2011 | Author: Dariane | Filed under: Thoughts | 2 Comments »I’m not the only one that’s deeply disturbed by this advertisement, right?
Transcript:
“Let’s talk about Stuff.
The Stuff that lives on your hard drive, your devices and on the web.
It’s who you are stuff, where you’ve been and where you’re going stuff.
The stuff that connects you to the people you love.
But sometimes bad stuff can happen to your Stuff.
Your Stuff can get lost. Even stolen.
The thing is, stuff happens.
Which is why you need Norton.
Because what are you without your Stuff?
Better yet, without your Stuff…who are you?”
When they throw in this line:
“The thing is, stuff happens.”
You know you could substitute a little four letter word in place of ‘stuff’.
On the other hand, Having digitised lots of things, I live in terror of my hard drive (and both backups) failing
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Oddly enough I’m much less attached to my digital stuff than my physical stuff, I suppose because I’ve had hard drives crash and lost everything. I know it’s a possiblity.
The only time I was ever actually worried about losing my digital stuff was when I was writing my thesis. If I’d lost that, I wouldn’t have graduated. There’s hardly anything in my life physical or otherwise that would affect my life as much as if my thesis disappeared right before graduation.
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