Dear Google Docs & Spreadsheets,
You were a stranger to me just a few months ago, but in the short time we've been together I've grown very fond of you. In fact, I can't imagine my life without you now, and I'm glad that my personal email account with Google binds you to me at no charge.
I may not have mentioned this before, but right before I met you I became a blogger. Before you, I worked with another named Word who wasn't as user-friendly for cutting and pasting blogs. His spacing was a little weird, though I would never tell him that to his face. With you, I can keep track of article ideas and rough drafts and know that the autosave feature is working all the time. I can also flesh out the idea at any time, insert the links here instead of after the article is pasted to my blogging platform, and access all this information from any computer with internet access. You are the most accommodating platform I have ever used. I can find you from any computer with internet access.
Your collaboration tool is great for working with other people on articles and projects outside my company, and I recommend you to my clients to store text for marketing, website content, and brainstorming ideas. It is a great way to keep track of ideas as they come, and it is an even better tool for collaborating on those ideas.
Because of all these features I have been a fan of yours for some time, but it wasn't until I erased a finished blog that I came to appreciate your true value. As I was inserting a link, I accidentally erased the entire text of my blog and then immediately saw the "saving" button in red at the top of the screen. Did my love of the autosave prove to be my downfall? Is the blank version now the final version? No, of course not. All I had to do was go to the Revisions tab, click on a version a few seconds older, and all my work was there. You have no idea what this meant to me.
So even though I continue to use Excel instead of your Spreadsheet version, and even though I use another platform for internal collaboration projects, I wanted you to know how much you've come to mean to me as a blogger in such a short time. I hope you aren't the shy type, since I plan to tell everyone I know how much I love you.
Thanks for being there for me, Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
Love,
Betsy
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