Facebook âLookbackâ condensing 10 years of utter tedium into 60 second video
Facebook has celebrated its 10th birthday by successfully condensing your extremely tedious online existence into a mawkish 60 second video. With âlookbackâ videos now filling news feeds across the globe, many experts have insisted that the platform could soon create a self-perpetuating loop of faux sentimentality from which no escape is possible. As one Facebook user explained, âLook at this video I expended no effort whatsoever in creating. It shows the highlights of what Iâve done over the last 10 years â isnât it incredibly ordinary?â âOh God, is this me? Is this my life? What have I become?â âIf Facebook thinks these are the very highlights of my existence, what is the point of me?â Others have been less traumatised by the whole affair, with Facebook user Sally Williams telling us, âIâve watched it a few times now, and shared it with my friends, who have shared theirs with me in turn.â âIâve spent the morning watching videos of posts Iâve already seen and getting comments from people commenting on a comment they left to one of my older comments. Itâs brilliant.â âMy top post was apparently something I posted after work one night in 2007 and resulted in my friends leaving fifty-nine âyou OK hunâs.â âHappy days.â Anthropologists have warned that Facebookâs Lookback feature could signal a new low in human society when future generations review the way we lived our lives. As one explained, âThey will look at what we did for a job of work, what we created, how we touched the lives of others â and ultimately they will conclude that a 60-second video made by someone else, containing parts of our lives that were probably staged anyway, was the highlight of our existence.â âYes, itâs pretty sad.â