Technology and Social media has become an important part of our daily life so it makes it hard for people to live without it. Social media and technology gives us infinite access to information and lets the world become more connected unlike ever before. However, this infinite amount of access and connection also comes with a cost. Transparency brought by social media blurred the line between public self and private self . Thus, makes it hard for people to balance it. In “Electric Funeral”, Chuck Klosterman states that technology has the power, technology is the future and it is hard for us to walk away from it. And in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets”, Peter Singer states that the newest of technology makes it difficult to
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Through social media, everything in our daily life becomes transparent. You could know somebody’s personal life by checking their social media and there’s no need for you to be close friends with them. People used to email, write letters or even call their friends in order to talk to them. Nowadays, you only need to click a few buttons on your phone and you could talk to your friends and send greetings to them. Us as a society use social media to show our personal life through posting photos or making comments. Individuals do this to show their private self on social media because they want to share their daily life. This is because individuals want to make more connections with the world. According to Peter Singer in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets”, “ Half a billion are now on Facebook suggests that people believe the benefits of connecting with others, sharing information, networking, self-promoting, filtering and bragging outweigh of privacy that accompany such behavior.” (Singer 427) The use of social media makes privacy harder to define and people’s public self on social media becomes their private self. Through the large use of technology and social media, people show different perspectives in their life. Transparency enables people to become unable to separate their private self and public self. Social media lets the …show more content…
Our private self used to be our personal life that we spend with our close friends. Our public self is how we are when we are at work, school or public places. Nowadays since their definition is evolving, we post things on social media that used to be defined as our private self. At the start of the millennium there was no social media at all and people’s social circle was not as big as now. However, the times have changed. Chuck Klosterman states in “ Electric Funeral”: “ You might not like where we’re going and tomorrow might be worse than yesterday. But it's still going to happen, whether you like it or not. It is inevitable.” ( Klosterman 225) Entering the era of science and technology, society pushes us to evolve, change and become more public because it is an inevitable process. Compared to few years ago, people are more willing to share and let other people know about our daily life. According to Singer in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without secrets”, “ That half a billion are now on Facebook suggests that people believe the benefits of connecting with others, sharing information , networking, self-promoting, flirting, and bragging outweigh breaches of privacy that accompany such behavior.” (Singer 427) Facebook has become an important part of our daily life because we use social media to expand our
Through social media, everything in our daily life becomes transparent. You could know somebody’s personal life by checking their social media and there’s no need for you to be close friends with them. People used to email, write letters or even call their friends in order to talk to them. Nowadays, you only need to click a few buttons on your phone and you could talk to your friends and send greetings to them. Us as a society use social media to show our personal life through posting photos or making comments. Individuals do this to show their private self on social media because they want to share their daily life. This is because individuals want to make more connections with the world. According to Peter Singer in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets”, “ Half a billion are now on Facebook suggests that people believe the benefits of connecting with others, sharing information, networking, self-promoting, filtering and bragging outweigh of privacy that accompany such behavior.” (Singer 427) The use of social media makes privacy harder to define and people’s public self on social media becomes their private self. Through the large use of technology and social media, people show different perspectives in their life. Transparency enables people to become unable to separate their private self and public self. Social media lets the …show more content…
Our private self used to be our personal life that we spend with our close friends. Our public self is how we are when we are at work, school or public places. Nowadays since their definition is evolving, we post things on social media that used to be defined as our private self. At the start of the millennium there was no social media at all and people’s social circle was not as big as now. However, the times have changed. Chuck Klosterman states in “ Electric Funeral”: “ You might not like where we’re going and tomorrow might be worse than yesterday. But it's still going to happen, whether you like it or not. It is inevitable.” ( Klosterman 225) Entering the era of science and technology, society pushes us to evolve, change and become more public because it is an inevitable process. Compared to few years ago, people are more willing to share and let other people know about our daily life. According to Singer in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without secrets”, “ That half a billion are now on Facebook suggests that people believe the benefits of connecting with others, sharing information , networking, self-promoting, flirting, and bragging outweigh breaches of privacy that accompany such behavior.” (Singer 427) Facebook has become an important part of our daily life because we use social media to expand our