SOCIAL media sites can be a little dry.

We all know the usual posts; what your friend had for dinner, how many weeks it is until someone you’ve not seen since university goes on holiday, another scan of an unborn child, the airing of the dirty laundry, either in the form of arguments or quite literally with pictures of pasty people intaking the 15C sunshine with their washing in British gardens.

Along with these comes Candy Crush Saga, which still gives me annoying notifications from people playing it, BitStrip, where users make comics of their daily lives, something I do occasionally still look at, and SnapChat, screenshots of insane or unusual moments meant to only be with the recipient for a fleeting second end up smothering my newsfeed like a new trend. And now there’s a new one. Or shall I say old one.

Timehop.

For those of you that aren’t normally taken back in time by their friends on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram who lived their teenage years in the 70s and 80s and who repeatedly post songs from lost years, school afro photos, and those of when moustaches were cool - not circa 2013 - Timehop does that for you with your posts on the site from the past four years.

A little turquoise dinosaur with traditional pilot’s goggles on searches your newsfeeds for the posts you made on that day so many years ago.

For example, my choices of old posts on Friday, May 16, included me with a picture of my pet bunny on my shoulder from 2013, me moaning that my first day of work in Merry Hill after transferring to a store closer to home ended up with me seeing one of my ex-boyfriends from 2012, in 2011 I was incredibly excited for something later, and finally from 2010 I had changed my mind about Kristen Stewart being attractive after seeing a picture in the News of the World.

It was a novelty to begin with, kind of like seeing your taste in fashion when you were the denim queen in high school and laughing, but after your family proving that you never had taste and still don’t to every Tom, Dick, and future husband that you take to them, you get a little bored.

And my posts are following that trend.

I still have a best friend pet because apparently me and my dog are now classed as a duo in the same category as my sister and her boyfriend, I still see ex-boyfriends and have awkward encounters with them, I have a boring social life now which is obviously no change from 2011 as I was excited for something and have no idea what for so it wasn’t good enough to make a memory about, and we all regularly judge celebrities as a part of life, so there’s no change.

Are we doomed to live a continual loop until the internet gets discounted for good?