When was the last time you used your camera phone? Did you upload any photos online today? Update your status on twitter/myspace/bebo/facebook? Write a blog entry? Watch the news? After the plane crashed into the Hudson River only a few weeks ago news of the disaster was on twitter within 14 seconds. People have been so consumed with documenting the happenings of real life that that a strange new socially acceptable surveillance has come into vogue.
We have embraced surveillance and have created a world where we watch each other through our social media. In letting the world know what we are doing, we are opening ourselves to unfriendly eyes and those eyes will be able to see the information we reveal long after we try to remove it.
