After reading Andrejevic's The Discipline of Watching, I started to think more about the different ways we are all surveilled. I found a really interesting article that talks about Facebook and how it is changing the rules of social surveillance. The main premise of the article is that, through Facebook, we both surveil and are surveilled. Facebook allows us to identify with both roles, making it more common for us to follow or research people online. The article also mentions the panoptic prison scenario that we talked about in class. An important question that the article asks is, when are we okay with creeping and being crept on?
We all definitely have boundaries when it comes to surveilling and being surveilled, but where are they?
How Facebook Makes Creepy Behavior Normal
I think that with the influx of technology like Facebook, Twitter, Goggle, etc. there are little to no boundaries to which you cannot be surveilled. Unfortunately, you can find out almost anything about an individual on the internet. Kind of creepy, huh?
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