There’s this wonderful (terrible) semi-new feature on Facebook that allows you to watch a video of your biggest moments, starting from your very first profile picture. That may be right up your alley. If so, click here. But for those of you like me, you might want to watch this particular video alone. 

Around 2008, I started posting over-edited selfies (see photo) and "NeverShoutNever!" lyrics as my status, multiple times a day. Don’t worry. Over the years I’ve learned what and what not to post, but am I going to feel the same way in a few years? I have this feeling that when I’m a couple of years wiser, I’ll look back and feel that same embarrassment I felt today while watching that video. 

It’s quite strange being among the first generations growing up with social media. I’ve always wondered what happens to our Facebooks, Instagrams and Twitters when we get older, and by older I mean much older -- think nursing home older. Are we going to be sitting in our wheelchairs choosing which filter to put on our mirror picture? Are we going to be updating our statuses about the latest drama going on in the local leisure action group? There’s part of me that thinks this isn’t likely to happen, but we are addicted to the media. Are we just going to give that up when we start getting wrinkly?

Let's say we give up Instagramming selfies and subtweeting when we get older. What do we do, then -- read books or newspapers? No way. If I were to sit down and read a book or a newspaper without checking my phone periodically I would have to be extremely interested. While that may not be the case for all of you, I doubt that I’m alone. 

If we continue this practice of constantly checking our Twitter, or what have you, our attention spans will lessen and lessen. By the time we’re in nursing homes we won’t be able to read the posters on the walls without stopping for a break to update our blogs. And do you know what’s going to happen next? We’re going to pass down these habits to our kids, they’ll pass them to their kids, and so on and so forth. Then we’ll be taken over by aliens because they have much longer attention spans. But, really, pretty soon we’ll all be goldfish with two-second attention spans, swimming around the never-ending fishbowl of social media.