Web 2.0 Culture = Technology Assisted Voyeurism
Written March 20th, 2007 by Paul in Blogging
If you don’t understand that headline, then try harder.
Everyone has voyeuristic tendencies. Everyone is curious about what their friends are doing and they’re even more curious about what people they don’t know are doing.
Look at reality TV. It was kicked off with the Survivor phenomenon. Millions of people tuned in every week to see what a bunch of strangers would do and react in adverse situations. Look at soap operas before that.
What about all those shows where they lock a group of polar opposite personalities in a house filled with cameras.
Look at the beginnings of blogging as we know it today. People basically keeping an online journal of their thoughts. It caught on quick and now ‘blog’ is a household word.
Now look at social networking sites which are basically a collection of little peepholes into people’s lives.
Now look at Twitter.
I wanna peer into your mind. It arouses mine.
