“What will you look like in the future if you continue with your current lifestyle?” That’s the big opening line of the new MirrorMe Facebook Application from Ideonic, and fortunately this application lives up to its promise. By utilizing a questionnaire and solid photo manipulation techniques, MirrorMe is able to produce a photo of you

Upon entering the application, you’re asked to pick a photo, and by using some slick Facebook integration, the application presents you with every “Photo of You” in your Facebook profile.  The chances that you have a picture where you’re staring straight ahead in bright lights is dim (unless you’re showing off a recent jail term), so the fact that they have the ability to upload from your hard drive is useful.

Once you’ve picked your photo, you explain your location, ethnic origin, age and are then presented with a quiz about your consumption of fruits, alcoholic drinks, illegal drugs and more.    Click OK and wait a minute, and tada, your transformation is complete.  You are able to view a split screen image, which is often hilarious, and also the full views.  They also give you an estimate of your age.

The great thing about an application like this isn’t that it has longevity, or that it’s the most engaging application you’ve ever used: It’s great for a one-time use and is worth a laugh with all your friends.  The fact that they also skewer your face much worse if you have smoked or done drugs means it does a small service, in a way.  I did find a lot of people on the comment boards stating that they were so put off by their first result that they went back in and took out all the drinking and smoking and they still looked terrible.  It seemed a bit like a reason to keep smoking to me, but an application that rouses that kind of behavior is truly an application worth trying, to me.