On June 6, just two weeks ago, we got the news that Spark People is closing up shop on August 17. They are working on a new platform that is not open to Canadians and other countries. Perhaps that will change in the future.
After the shock started to wear off, most Sparks started making plans about where they will move. Personally, I had joined other sites in the past just to see what they are like. There is https://loseit.com/; https://www.myfitnesspal.com/;
https://www.fatsecret.ca/;
https://cronometer.com/; https://www.mynetdiary.com/ and others I haven't checked yet.
I haven't decided which one I will use consistently.
Then there were old blogs to check. I have been re-reading all those I had written. Some got deleted but many were saved. Some are about vacations I have been on and some are about the various walking streaks I have had over the years. I have written about my husband's hospital stays. A few of those I had forgotten about. Some blogs I saved because of the pictures I shared. I lost track of how many times I was re-starting or writing about a fresh start (aren't they the same thing?). This afternoon I finished with the task. Many of those blogs got saved to this blog until I figure out if I can insert them in the right order of events.
This exercise reminded me how much I appreciate reading about things that happened in the past. I started to write in my paper journal again so that the things I want to remember are down in black and white and won't end up in the recycle bin at the whim of someone else. I suppose some good might come from the closing of Spark. Time will tell.
We were in Amherstburg one evening last week, looking at the water.
Wow! You are an endurance athlete when it comes to saving those old blogs! I applaud this gargantuan effort, but don't think I'll be able to emulate it. I have often had to "let go" of old records, and I really discovered this after my parents passed... I was reading my mother's notes, and my sister would probably kill me, but shredded most of them! It felt too personal!
ReplyDeleteBut it was also very revealing. And those were paper journals, hand-written... I understand about not wanting to be subject to the whims of some system, or administrator, deciding they just don't want to give access to this memory, or they want to use the bit-space for some other endeavor!
Onward to newer adventures!