1000 photos on facebook

Just now, I realised that I have got 1000 photographs on facebook. Thats crazy! It seems strange, as I was an extraordinarily late comer to the realm of facebook, as I only joined towards the very end of year 13. By that time, the majority of people my age had become well established on the social network.

Photographs are an excellent way of keeping record of what you have been up to in the past, and it is the only way to see how you have aged. I don't think I have aged very much at all in the last 3 or so years, but for your viewing pleasure, below is the very first picture of me to ever appear on facebook.

In this picture from left to right are my friends Anna Henderson, Sam Stafford, and of course myself. This is the last day of churston grammar school sixth form, we are all dressed in wild west format. It was uploaded on the 23rd May 2009, and I would have been only 17. I think I look rather fresh faced, and maybe a bit thinner. It is now the 5th June 2011, and I will be 20 in a month. Time makes fools of us all. No wait- Alan makes fools of us all...

I was hoping that my 1000th picture would have been something memorable, something including off-the-scale grandeur or me doing something suitably impressive. However, my wishful thinking appears to have left me with somewhat of a hollow victory, as my 1000th picture is.... drumroll please... ... a "slightly out of focus shot of me talking to George White, and I am facing the wrong way". The picture is courtesy of a mobile upload from Izzy Slipper. Cheers.

And so in conclusion, ... well, nothing. I sort of explained everything already.