It’s one of those days where I’m feeling really philosophical. I’ve just had my morning notification that my TimeHop is ready. Not heard of it? Okay, so it’s a little application you can download which scans your social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram & Twitter and manages to source all your exact photos, tweets and statuses from that exact day from years gone by.
Whilst I am all for it, the photo’s make me smile because hey, when do you ever upload a bad photo? But it’s the grim statuses that make me cringe. Most of mine are pretty light hearted. I for one cannot stand soppy or hate-filled statuses so will not abide to doing it myself but this time last year was when my Grandad was taken pretty ill. I’m not quite sure I want to relive anything that reminds me of that time?
I’m sure the aim of the game is to reminisce about some of the fantastic memories that I’ve had with my husband, family and dear friends over the years and most days it does make me chuckle to myself. But what does happen when something pops up that you don’t want to be reminded of. An ex who broke it off with you? The day your car blew up? This can’t be good for us to be reminded of that.
For example today’s offerings were a status from 3 years ago & I cringed when I read it. A preacher of none whining statuses (as I so freely admit here) I went and broke my golden rule! I have absolutely no idea what on earth I’m referring to, but whatever it was at the time clearly made me feel pretty crap.
However, fast forward to a year ago, I’m looking Happy as Larry at our local Christmas Light switch on. (And noticeably skinnier too!) Now whilst this is a happy memory, at the same time I’m looking at myself thinking ”Gosh, I wish I was that thin again!” – so it’s had a catch 22 effect on. BOOO.
TimeHop was recently in the middle of a scandal when on the anniversary of September the 11th our little TimeHop dinosaur was pretty jolly to say the least. In fact on my feed he was telling me ”Don’t Panic” which was pretty ironic.
Whilst there was a sullen image of respect below it just became distasteful. I just hope come the next anniversary they are a little more on the ball with their little captions.
For me, I do love this app & I feel myself checking it every morning to remind myself of plenty of good times. Do you have this app? Do love the fact that it brings up old memories or hate it because it brings up your past?
Rebecca xxx
