TIME IS ON MY SIDE

TIME IS ON MY SIDE

They say that time changes everything. That much is very true. How much it changes completely varies. In the event that folks over on social media are highlighting, time is just a matter of years going by. Specifically 10 years. Which is a rather specific time frame. In most cases, Facebook just opened itself up to folks who weren't students. So hey, that's something to factor in.

But yeah, social media has been going crazy with the either net positive reaction of feeling like time didn't weather you too much and that you survived a lot of wrinkles or what not and feel good about yourself, or, you know, how things will be bound to go, you got older and fatter and time was not on your side.

One thing is for sure, this just makes me feel like my cynical alarms make me a jaded person because, well... it does seem like the whole purpose of this was to just update the aggregations of who you are to these social media outlets for facial recognition. Getting a sample of ten years makes it a lot more likely that it'll track down all your faces over the years as it can fill in the gaps in between. So in a sense, you taking part of another facebook trend just helped facial recognition advance and get better. Soon we'll be like China and have a whole social credit program going.

But of course this was some sort of facebook social media bullshit. How many times are you going to fall for the same shit dressed slightly different? The quizzes you take are all about setting up info profile points on you for algorithms to data mine you better and sell you consumer products in the best way possible. Because, fuck, man. This is always the case. It's simple always what happens and why the fuck are you surprised by this shit anymore?

Further more, yeah, you may be comfortable with who you are 10 years later, I mean, no matter what you'll have to accept that you have aged because... you have aged. Simple as fucking that. I don't see what showing folks a younger self does other than one extreme or another and you already knew which extreme you were going to be long before you even thought about posting it. So yeah, I'm not sure what you were expecting in any of this.

Thanks for helping face recognition take that one step further into a world of shittiness.