TKA Bahasa Inggris Tingkat Lanjut Paket 1

Text 1: Back up your family photos (rekaan)

Last year, Mrs. Wulan dropped her phone into a river during a family trip. The phone could not be repaired, and with it she lost almost every photo of her children's first five years. Stories like hers are common, yet they are easy to prevent. In my view, every family that keeps its memories on a phone should make regular backups, that is, extra copies of their photos stored somewhere other than the phone.

The first reason is that phones are fragile. They are dropped, stolen, left in taxis, or simply stop working after a few years. A memory card inside the phone is not much safer, because it can be damaged and is usually lost together with the phone. When photos exist on only one device, a single accident is enough to lose them all.

Second, a backup costs less than many people think. Many phones come with some free online storage, and a basic external hard drive can hold tens of thousands of photos. A backup does not need to be expensive to be useful; it simply needs to be a second copy kept in a different place.

Third, backing up takes very little time once it becomes a habit. Most phones can be set to copy new photos automatically whenever they are connected to Wi-Fi. Families who prefer not to keep pictures online can connect the phone to a computer once a month and copy the new photos in a few minutes.

Some people say that backups are unnecessary because they already share their best pictures on social media. However, many platforms reduce the size of photos so that they load faster, which means the copies there are often of lower quality than the originals. Besides, nobody posts every picture of their family.

Losing a phone is annoying, but losing years of family memories is far worse. A few minutes of effort each month is a small price to pay for keeping them safe.