Why should you eject a USB stick?

Why should you "eject" a USB stick before pulling it out? 💾⚠️

🧠 When you save or copy a file, your computer often parks it in fast memory (RAM) first…
⏳ …and writes it to the stick a moment later. The copy window can say "done" before the stick really is!
✂️ Pull the stick out mid-write and the file can be cut in half.
🗂️ Worse: the stick's file list (where every file lives) can break — then nothing opens and your PC asks to format it.
✅ Eject = finish all the writing first, then "Safe to remove".
💡 Windows uses "Quick removal" for USB sticks, so it's safer there — but if the light is blinking, it's still busy. Eject anyway!