I've lost too much data over the years to do anything other than treat GMail as a super fast, convenient way to access my mail in the cloud. I have Thunderbird

I've lost too much data over the years to do anything other than treat GMail as a super fast, convenient way to access my mail in the cloud. I have Thunderbird setup on pop3 and treat the downloaded mail data as if it were my only copy. Regular backups etc. Flickr and Facebook don't hold anything I don't already have in my Pictures folder.