965th Friday Blog Roundup

If you haven’t signed in to an old Gmail account in the last two years and want to keep it, you should sign in today because Gmail will purge old accounts soon. They had a few conditions for times when they wouldn’t delete the account, and they sent a message in August:

If your account is considered inactive, we will send several reminder emails to both you and your recovery emails (if any have been provided) before we take any action or delete any account content. These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account.

But just to be on the safe side, go log in.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Not a Wasted Word has thoughts on participating in NaBloPoMo, how blogging has changed, and finding community. She writes, “Maybe I don’t need it as much anymore, because I have some really solid friends in the real world that I text with daily and see regularly. And maybe I do, because maybe blogging is about something different for me now, than the connection is used to provide.” I love seeing NaBloPoMo live on because it was part of my job to run it when it moved to BlogHer. This post encapsulates the best of blogging, placing down the random thoughts and finding community in the me too.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path writes about Thanksgiving JOMO. I love the spontaneous drinks at the bar, as well as this thought: “Do I still have the grief of not having the children and family that we wanted? Of course. But it’s not front and center. It’s surrounded by a whole lot of appreciation for the life we do have.” Because the life you have looks pretty awesome.

The roundup to the Roundup: Use it or lose it with old Gmail accounts. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between November 24 – December 1) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.