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Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds

Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds

5 years ago
Anonymous $TjsaxHwAP-

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/14/1672711-planefeo/

You should cringe when you read that hashtag. Because it’s a reminder that people are being socially engineered by technology platforms to objectify and spy on each other for voyeuristic pleasure and profit.

The short version of the story attached to the cringeworthy hashtag is this: Earlier this month an individual, called Rosey Blair, spent all the hours of a plane flight using her smartphone and social media feeds to invade the privacy of her seat neighbors — publicly gossiping about the lives of two strangers.