What would you look like when you are 80 years old？ It seems too far away to imagine， but an app named FaceApp tries to show you.

With the help of an aging filter， the app creates transformations of users faces using various filters and features. The FaceApp aging challenge went viral. Many celebrities like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber shared their wrinkly， grey-haired selfies on social media.

FaceApp helps us stop thinking of things that dont matter and focus on the present. “We view these images as speculative fiction， not realized and therefore unreal，” US author Nicci Gerrard told The New York Times. “We think of our younger selves， because in one sense thats who we are. Our younger stories are still part of us， while our older self doesnt yet exist.”

However， not everyone can laugh at their older selves. For some， aging is terrifying and its hard to accept what the future holds in terms of looks， feelings， and perception. As Metro UK noted， “Its a prophet of doom： FaceApp is making people into a harrowing crisis.”

FaceApp does light up the Internet. It gives us the chance to take a look at our futures and perhaps let us consider how to prepare for it.

80歲的你會是什么樣子？這似乎遙遠(yuǎn)得有些難以想象，但一款名為FaceApp的應(yīng)用卻能讓你看到自己的“老年照”。

該應(yīng)用借助了一款變老濾鏡，通過使用各式各樣的濾鏡效果以及面部特征修改功能，讓用戶“變臉”。一項(xiàng)利用FaceApp的“變老挑戰(zhàn)”走紅網(wǎng)絡(luò)。很多名人像泰勒·斯威夫特、賈斯汀·比伯都在社交媒體上分享了一臉皺紋、滿頭白發(fā)的自拍照。

FaceApp令我們不再考慮無關(guān)緊要的事情，而是關(guān)注當(dāng)下?！拔覀儗⑦@些照片視為推測的想象，這一切都尚未發(fā)生，因此也并不真實(shí)。”美國作家尼西·吉拉德在接受《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》采訪時(shí)表示，“我們會想到更年輕的自己，因?yàn)樵谀撤N意義上那便是我們本身。我們年輕時(shí)的經(jīng)歷仍然是我們?nèi)松囊徊糠郑昀系哪莻€(gè)自己還并不存在?！?/p>

然而，不是所有人都樂見變老的自己。對于一些人而言，變老是件很恐怖的事，他們很難接受未來自己的樣貌、感受以及認(rèn)知。正如英國《地鐵報(bào)》所指出的：“這就是一段末日預(yù)言：FaceApp正在令人們經(jīng)歷一場痛苦的危機(jī)。”

FaceApp的確引發(fā)了全網(wǎng)狂歡。它令我們有機(jī)會一窺未來的自己，或許還能令我們開始思考，如何為未來做好準(zhǔn)備。

Word Study

speculative /'spekj?l?t?v/ adj. 推測的;推斷的

The papers ran speculative stories about the mysterious star.

doom /du?m/ n. 厄運(yùn);毀滅

v. 使……注定失?。ㄋ劳龌蛟庋甑龋?/p>

The plan was doomed to failure.