#ID #Issues

Would never have guessed it, but almost a week later… I am still thinking about William Merrin’s thoughts on Me-dia. Yes, it’s true.

You see, for the past 6 weeks I’ve been in quite a pickle with my Apple products. In attempting to update an embarassing email address haunting my iMessage (“elise__love”… we’ve all been there) I’ve managed to find an accidental loop-hole in Apple’s updating procedure. I half deleted an old account whilst half creating a new one, thus somehow merging and locking them both. Skills, I tell you. After having no luck from Apple’s base in Brisbane, the Philippines and their fraud team in solving the issue, I have been trapped for over a month with an unusable Apple ID. It is on all my gadgets, yet cannot be removed, and cannot be logged into. I’ve been left unable to access my iTunes, iPhoto, iMessage, App store or any updates.

Aside from this tragic work in progress that I like to call my technological life, Merrin comes into this about now. At approximately 9.15pm, realising I could no longer get onto iCloud (got it back at 10.37pm yay) I thought about actually losing every photo I’ve ever taken. Essentially this online storage service, and everything it contained was lost into oblivion with my Apple ID account for all I knew. I thought about the ephemeral quality of contemporary media.

Merrin comments on a digital world plagued with fragility. Not only in media’s use, attention and relevance but also a physical sense. In a society so ingrained with online media, when things go wrong… Where can we actually find our stuff? It is a frightening thought…

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