The update wiped everything off my phone.

The update wiped everything off my phone. It was updating fine, and I came back to the dreadful "plug into itunes" symbol.
Can someone please let me know why it did this? I updated to the iOS 7 without any problems like this. It's the iOS 7.0.2 that really effed me over.
I am truly devastated. All the pictures of my family are lost because I didn't think that this would wipe out my phone. If I had known, I would have backed it up.
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V.s.k. wrote:
.... All the pictures of my family are lost because I didn't think that this would wipe out my phone. If I had known, I would have backed it up.
No device in the world is perfect, and if those photos were so important,
they SHOULD have been backed up in the first place, regardless of what
device they were on.

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