-Pocket Mirror to Digital Camera:

The flawless, bumpless and blemishless future is here. In a few yonks (years in english, yarrs in pirate), people will become so infatuated in appearances and comparisons of such appearances with others, that the human contact that truly soothes the soul will be replaced by pre-set emotions, facial expressions and body movements that attempt very desperately to make the user of them feel attractive. It's all about viewing the world at a distance now, put that filter on, as to not see the inconsistencies carved on your skin, make it seem like it's being viewed from a distance.

It doesn't appear that we were wired to see ourselves, a glance in a river stream may have sufficed in order to make our ancestors understand that they are still themselves. The invention of the mirror offering a clear view wasn't enough it seems, now those images can be saved with a camera, with developments in technology allowing pictures to be taken in higher quality, with the resolution showing every bit of detail. But you don't like that do you? Your pustuly, asymmetrical face looking like a kitchen sponge isn't exactly comfortable to look at, you would rather apply a digital filter onto it, not accepting that you're lying to yourself.

This feels like it would homogenise what people find appealing, is that not correct? All of a sudden, looks and features can be placed into boxes, people can pick and choose what parts they find appealing and try to imprint them on oneself, do you think eugenics arguments will be raised up once this occurs? That's where your plastic surgery, your excessive caked on makeup, your facial tape and your facial implants come in if I were to make an honest guess, give your associates a reason to fall prey to the Capgras Delusion.

No more flaws to be seen, why even put in the effort of trying to take care of yourself when software can make you a different person? In the future, facial models will be made, people on the internet will comparatively look completely different, mixing in a myriad of facial traits that they find visually appealing in an attempt to play doppleganger to this non-flesh set of data. You could even get your own set of expressions and a tried and trusted personality that wouldn't cause strife or harm or cause offense to anybody, allowing people to put you in a box in order to neglect thinking or getting to know you. What's there to know? Everyone knows what your responses to every possible question in their mind could be, it may be your first meeting, but they've seen something like you so many times before.