Are We Always Watched?

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Everyone at some point in their lives are watched, it’s not a choice anyone can make. If I could control that for myself I would say my personal life is my own stay out. While not only being watched and judged by the people for your appearance, some can dig into the most intimate part of your life. What person wants people to track them to get their personal information such as; license plate number, bank account, web sites, and even phone calls. Is there anything in life today that we keep private? I hate that feeling that someone probably knows my every move. Everyone watches what they call “important people” and try to be like them. Today people aren’t their own person, because they feel they have to meet a certain expectation.
Furthermore, not only the topics of tracking and being watched there is also a flip side such as social media web sites that can sometimes cause major issues like posting pictures, videos, etc., of people who have not approved, and if that such thing goes viral it can almost never be removed. In Flip Side by Jessica Bennett, a young boy reenacted a scene from Star Wars and it went viral and could not be removed. He suffered from this incident and had to go through therapy sessions (Bennett, Jessica.) That is just one of many examples of what different social media web sites can do to people. Looking at what people are trying to come up with today to track people, everything in our personal lives is becoming open to the world. News going around today is our government are creating chips the size of a grain of rice to implant in our skin that would hold any personal information we may have. This goes to show that before to long we will have no such thing as a private life. Someone will know every move we ...

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...systems so if someone were to break in the police could be notified in a rush.
Overall there are certain ways of being watched and watching can be disastrous and good as well. For example, what happened with the young boy who went viral from reenacting a Star Wars scene, he had to go through therapy sessions with his family and the videos are still available today. Another was how anyone can locate you at anytime this is one major issue that I have and should not be available. While we do have some positives as I said before with security systems to protect families from burglaries if a husband would be out of town or for a single mother. We just need to remember that no matter what we will be watched daily. Consumers should take those measures to be extremely careful to keep extremely personal information to themselves and watch what information is told to others.

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