Relying on a cloud account, free or otherwise, to store the only copy of your life's work is asking for disaster. If you rely on data being archived, you need

Relying on a cloud account, free or otherwise, to store the only copy of your life's work is asking for disaster. If you rely on data being archived, you need to know enough to do it yourself, on redundant portable hard disks, whatever. The cloud copy may be a working copy, but it has to be backed up. As for Google accounts being nuked for inappropriate pictures: Whoa. You buy a cheap Android tablet, never really use it for photography. Then one day you grab some quick pix with it, not even realizing the default installed Google Photos app is going to upload them to the cloud by default. And then see them pop up on your other devices! This happened. Of course I instantly vaporized the Google Photos app on all my devices and installed Gallery Go instead. No cloud! And of course an alternate scheme for backing up the camera roll on my phone (I already remembered to set it not to sync photos to the cloud - I just forgot to check the tablet).