Google Accidentally Loses A Shit Ton of Gmail Accounts

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Imagine opening up your e-mail and finding years of correspondence gone.  As many as 150,000 Gmail users have been confronting that scary scenario throughout the past day. Around 3:00 pm ET Sunday, Google began "investigating reports of an issue" with its popular e-mail service...I logged in and my account also looks like a brand-new Gmail account ! 10 years of emails (17000 of them) are gone," one user wrote on Google's help forum thread. "This happened to me this a.m. Everything from 6 years gone. Contact list is fine, but all communications have been deleted," another wrote. "If, ultimately, Google does not make this right in a timely way and I lose the main record of the last 7 years of my life.

Allright Dorks and Dorkettes, everyone calm the hell down.   Unless this impacted a business of yours and cost you actual money everyone can cut the shit (and even then you shouldn't be using a standard issue gmail account if your business is that important).  Like the guy with 17000 emails over 10 years.  Hey buddy, you don't have to save and archive every email you ever received.  I'm sure that 2002 Blue Mountain e-card from your zany-aunt on your birthday isn't something you desperately need.  Same with records of your 2004 utility bills that you paid online.   

I get panicked and start having cold sweats when I have more than 10 emails backed up in my queue, that needs to be handled stat. Pretty much the only old lingering emails in my personal Gmail account are from the pre-smartphone days, when I couldn't just read and delete shit on site.  Google should do me the favor and wipe out my personal email to clear those up for me. I certainly wouldn't go crying a river to CNN about how I can't trust cloud computing.  What a load of crap.