{"id":40583,"date":"2015-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T04:06:15","slug":"the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am. \u201cHow old are you?\u201d people demand to know. I tell them my age. \u201cYou look younger,\u201d is always the response. While I always knew people were saying it to be polite \u2013 at the same time, I believed it. I\u2019d smugly applaud myself for my regular facials. All that overpriced lotion with the stem cells I\u2019ve been buying at the pharmacy? So worth it. No plastic surgery needed for this face. Merci, Mother Nature.

Of course, as the ritual goes in Lebanon, when someone tells you that you look younger than whatever age you tell them, you are obligated to return the favor. \u201cDo I look older or younger?\u201d this question, by social contract, must always be met with an emphatic, \u201cYOUNGER! Ekkid, Younger!!\u201d That is, if you ever want to remain in your questioner\u2019s good graces.

Today I found out the cold hard truth: this whole time, everyone has been lying to me \u2013 the same way I have been lying to everyone else. I look exactly as old as I am, if not a few years older, even. I know thanks to the \u201chow do I look app\u201d \u2013 which is of course the hottest and newest way for us to feel terrible about ourselves on the internet.

Thank you internet, you never-ending black vortex of assholery.



Even Haifa Wehbe does not look younger than she is. In fact, she looks a full year older than her 39 years, at least according to the app.<\/b>



Of course, subtract a few years if you\u2019re looking at the photo-shopped album cover.<\/b>



Renowned Lebanese actor Mia Khalifa looks exactly 22 but not younger. So if you see her and she asks, do I look older or younger? You are obligated to say \u201cIn fact, you look exactly the age that you are.\u201d <\/b>



According to the app, Saad Hariri looks 38 in this picture (which is younger than 45) \u2013 which leads me to believe that the Hariris rigged the app to protect Saad\u2019s ego. \u201cNo, hayete, you look younger. Much younger.\u201d<\/b>



Which is more than we can say for legendary journalist Robert Fisk, who doesn\u2019t even get a face. <\/b>



Fans of Samir Geagea will be pleased to know that the sexy former warlord in fact does look younger than he is (IRL he is 62). Geagea’s secret fountain of youth? The replica of a prison cell he keeps in his home, which he slows time when he sits in it. <\/b>



The dashing Al Jazeera presenter and national treasure Mister Lebanon Rabih el zein looks 33 but really he’s younger. <\/b>

In the end I think it\u2019s important that we remember a few important facts about life. One is that we can\u2019t all look younger than we are. By definition, some of us would have to look younger and some of us would have to look older.

Another thing is that despite the cult of youth that pervades every facet of post-modern society, it\u2019s important to remember that all of us, being mortal, will in fact, die some day. So do we really want to spend any more of our precious time here obsessing over this damn app?<\/big>
\"\"<\/figure>
\"\"<\/figure>
\"\"<\/figure>
\"\"<\/figure>
\"\"<\/figure>
\"\"<\/figure><\/figure> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-40583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[38],"yoast_head":"\nThe How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beirut.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-11T04:06:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40583-6.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"594\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"466\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-11T04:06:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":550,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/40583-6.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/\",\"name\":\"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/40583-6.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-11T04:06:15+00:00\",\"description\":\"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/40583-6.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/40583-6.png\",\"width\":594,\"height\":466},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/40583\\\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com\",\"description\":\"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. Discover where to go and fall in love with our country.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com, SA\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1044,\"caption\":\"Beirut.com, SA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/beirutcityguide\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/beirutcityguide\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract","description":"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract","og_description":"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/","og_site_name":"Beirut.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide","article_published_time":"2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-11T04:06:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":594,"height":466,"url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40583-6.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@beirutcityguide","twitter_site":"@beirutcityguide","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract","datePublished":"2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-11T04:06:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/"},"wordCount":550,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40583-6.png","articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/","name":"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40583-6.png","datePublished":"2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-11T04:06:15+00:00","description":"People in Lebanon are always telling me I look younger than I am.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40583-6.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40583-6.png","width":594,"height":466},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40583\/the-how-old-do-i-look-app-violates-lebanese-social-contract\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The How Old Do I Look? App Violates Lebanese Social Contract"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/","name":"Beirut.com","description":"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. Discover where to go and fall in love with our country.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization","name":"Beirut.com, SA","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1044,"caption":"Beirut.com, SA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide","https:\/\/x.com\/beirutcityguide"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676032,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583\/revisions\/676032"}],"wp:authorship":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40583"},{"taxonomy":"media-embed-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-embed-type?post=40583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}