Vox - Go to Facebook on your desktop. Go to the most recent photo of yourself. Click the left arrow. In all likelihood, you're staring at a much younger version of yourself. At your fingertips is an album of years of your life. Mine stretches back to June 2006, starting with awkward prom photos from my final days of high school. My entire adult life ? as is the case for most 20-somethings like me ? is thoroughly documented online. You might not make a habit of scrolling through your past in this way. But you probably get tagged in forgotten old photos on Throwback Thursdays. If you're one of the 12 million people who use the app Timehop, you're shown a daily time capsule of all the photos, tweets, and status updates you shared on the same date in previous years. And if you're a Facebook user, you'll soon experience something like this by default: the company is quietly rolling out an "On This Day" feature that will push old photos to your news feed daily. Our thi
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