It's 9:26 on a Wednesday night, and I am sitting on the couch scrolling through social media and I keep thinking about how crazy freaked out I would be if there was a person looking through my television or looking through the camera on my phone.
First, I know the dreadful feeling of being forced to read. Second, I would like to tell all of you who haven't read much of the book that it gets much better.
Anyway, all of this thought about no privacy is starting to scare me a little bit. But that is what this world has come too. And the article we read today proves just that. Our phones are not used how they were intended. Making phone calls is becoming less popular and the amount of text messages and time on social media is increasing. The only issue is, we don't exactly have a way of stopping it. At least I know I don't. I will be honest, my cell phone is basically attached to my hip and I use it for just about everything. It is a very handy tool I can tell you that, but as you are spending hundreds of dollars on this device, you are also paying the price of giving some privacy away. We are lucky that we don't like in a world like Oceania because I know I would hate it. If someone was able to watch me dance and sing in my room and watch every text I sent; if someone had so much control over my actions to the extent that I would go to jail if I thought my own thoughts, I would go insane. Yet day by day we are giving up our privacy for the world to see every single time we tweet or post a picture on Instagram.
The point of this was to tell you to first, read 1984 because it is actually pretty intriguing and second, to be more cautious of where you put or say the information you want to keep private. Also there are only two and a half weeks left until we are half way done with our last year of high school, so keep your heads up fellow Seniors.
I just finished 1984, and I have to admit, it did get a little slow, but the plot does get better! I like how you mentioned that spend so much money on a device that gives away our privacy. We're just becoming more aware of the government being able to monitor our actions, and it's a little uncomfortable to think about. In future generations, technology will have evolved to its peak, and people won't question about the government's role in gathering all this information. There are 7 billion people in this world, and it's reaching the point that nearly 1.5 billion of those people will have smartphones. 1 in every 5 Americans own a smartphone. I think the reason that we don't often pay attention to the big and tough government is that we are so engrossed in our lives and posting about our latest details.
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