You have a set of friends, colleagues and vague acquaintances you’ve accumulated over the years, and expressed as a graph of connections in various applications such as Facebook, Myspace, blog networks, twitter, flickr etc. You’ve spent years constructing a trail of digital detritus.
Mnemosynr lets you press a button, wipe your list of friends away, clears your office party pictures, deletes your thoughtful snaps of rolling hills from flickr, empties your blog of all those valuable observations.
Then it takes the mass of Facebook accounts, arbitrary images, occasional mutterings from twitter, and randomly chooses elements to recreate the whole construction.
You now have new friends, with a history of conversations, events attended, and a whole new list of old schoolfriends to ignore. Internet caches are rewritten, search engines reindex, reputations are recalculated. You have been digitally reconstructed.
As memories have long ago been discarded, to be replaced with paginated histories, the transition is painless.