Earlier this morning, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and saw a posting that is all-too-common for college students: someone’s computer rebooted in the middle of the night and they lost the massive Word document they’d been working on before they went to be.

Of course, the first comment was, “Save your work bro.”

And of course, the original poster’s reply was, “Gee, thanks for telling me now asshole.”

This, my friends, is why I’m writing this flimsily-disguised rant. I’m tired of seeing people use their computers like morons. I’m tired of people not doing obvious things to protect themselves from easily-avoided disasters.

And most of all, I’m tired of seeing said people complain about their misfortune on Facebook and then get all defensive when someone very rightly tells them why they’re a bonehead and what they could have done.

So here’s my blanket statement, which isn’t pointed directly an any one person but at everyone:

If you lose a large amount work to a computer problem, you were most likely being an idiot. It’s not Microsoft’s fault. It’s not Dell’s fault. It’s not the fault of those three old hags in Hercules that share one eye and cut threads all day. It’s your fault.

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