Tagged

Anyone who has kids knows that they grow up way too fast. My wife and I try to fully enjoy each stage of our kids' lives and we try to capture important memories along the way. One way we do that is by taking a picture of our daughter in front of her classroom on the first day of school each year. We did just that a couple weeks ago when our daughter started the fourth grade. Afterwards, my wife uploaded the picture to Facebook and something interesting happened. Facebook tried to tag my daughter's picture as me! Everyone says that she looks a lot like me, apparently Facebook thinks she IS me.

My initial reaction was "I have to apologize to my daughter." Can you imagine growing up knowing you're going to look like me?!?! But then I started thinking about it more. She and I do have some similar facial features--our eyes, cheeks, etc. But apparently they are so similar that Facebook saw me in her facial blueprint. It was unable to distinguish me from her.

So I wondered…if God was on Facebook and I posted a picture of me, would Facebook try to tag it as God? Think about it. Do I look enough like God that Facebook (or others) would see God's features/character in me? How about you?