Leave Me Alone

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Look at me! Leave me Alone!

In the article “Look at me! Leave me alone” by author Joshua Gemson we get to know his thoughts and feelings about privacy. Gemson also tells us how remarkable it is to see that people want to get on TV and get famous, but at the same time they want privacy.

He uses the “Truman Show” movie as an example of how obsessed the society has become of seeing reality TV. Gemson finds it frightening to see how accustomed we have grown to be with all the cameras and reality TV around.” The TV solution to the worry that we are too watched to be real, our lives too public to be trusted, is more watching in the hope of glimpsing t e real he says” (p.459).

Later in his article he is discussing privacy more closely, and he does not like the way “everyone” can find out private information about each other on the internet for example. He believes that everybody should be careful with leaving traces these days. He also feels that we should be very careful with giving out information about ourselves . Most big companies like America Online for example, sell your information to others he mentions. Cookies are an example of a more common occurrence because this is a software that tracks what you are looking at on the internet. Right after you have surfed on the internet you could receive messages about vacations, weight loss medicine etc in your e-mail.

I find Joshua Gemson’s article very interesting, and it fits the time we are living in now. I support his arguments, and it worries me that people are so obsessed with cameras and getting on TV. The fact that so many people are watching it too, does not make it any better. Instead of watching other people’s lives on either internet or TV, people should rather be living their own lives. I think Gemson is making a good point when he asks us to imagine a life without TV, internet or magazines....