My theory of the internet

There is a new phenomenon emerging on websites like Facebook.com where people can post their photographs and reference the people in them. What this leads to is the ability for one to reference all the photographs of their friends and relatives that they appear in. It is rather exciting to see what turns up when you click on your name and, in my case, 65 pictures pop up that involve you in some way or another. In many cases, these photographs are posted with two objectives in mind. The first objective is to reference a particular event, like the baby shower you crashed with your fraternity brothers high on mescaline or the monster truck rally at which you met your future wives and adopted polygamy. The other objective of these pictures is for comedic effect. I tend towards this category. People will post pictures of you getting arrested, being surprised at the sexuality of your dancefloor partner, or getting personal with a stripper pole. Both objectives are highly entertaining, so looking at the pictures you appear in is like having a semi-biographical reference of your own life as seen by the people around you.

Now lets take this concept and merge it with the method that Google uses to determine the links you see when you do a Google search. The magic of Google is that is doesn't actually SEARCH the entire internet for what you're looking for, instead it ranks sites by how many OTHER sites link to that one. So when you search for "Pokemon" it will provide you with the site that is referenced to the most by other, less popular sites dedicated to the capture and maintenance of fictional fighting pets that live inside pill balls. What would happen if you did this to Facebook.com's photo galleries? Imagine the ability to reference how many of your friends have posted pictures of you invovled in a particular event. Let's say your friends reference you in the picture and at the same time list the event and when it occured. If this was adopted on a large scale, you would be able to determine what events your FRIENDS viewed as the most important parts of your life. You could do a search and see what pictures you appeared most frequently and when those pictures were taken. It would be like having someone write your biography while you were still alive and having absolutely no say in what the author was writing about.

I'm taking back my life. From now on, nobody is allowed to take pictures of me. It's officially against my religion.