This sort of seems like willful submission of normally private information, relatively speaking. Myspace and Facebook already make any information about you readily accessable to quite literally any curious person in the world. Furthermore, Lockerz never really says outright that the information will be utilized for market research exclusively. Regardless, I agree that it is a reasonable inference.
Still, though, 1984 predicts a futuristic world in which our privacy is demolished by imposing and blatant totalitarian tactics. Perhaps this prediction has fully manifested in a more benign-looking way. We willfully and almost gleefully surrender any (and probably all) information about ourselves. And for what? Crap that we don't really need. It's a metaphor for American culture, and perhaps capitalism as a whole. We have such a precious gift in what liberties remain, yet we throw them away for material possessions.
Is it a coincidence that teens and young adults are always the target of such intense information harvesting? Perhaps it's a way to desensitize up and coming generations. Will they even know that they have the possibility to keep their lives and minds private? They will most likely fail to understand that the information provided will keep them a perpetually compulsive consumer. Who knows the marketing potential of such a vast database of various information? Do corporations really need infinite resources in the area of mind control?!
I'm going to stop there. It's probably obvious that I could go on forever. I'll get back to reading Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451.
This sort of seems like willful submission of normally private information, relatively speaking. Myspace and Facebook already make any information about you readily accessable to quite literally any curious person in the world. Furthermore, Lockerz never really says outright that the information will be utilized for market research exclusively. Regardless, I agree that it is a reasonable inference.
Still, though, 1984 predicts a futuristic world in which our privacy is demolished by imposing and blatant totalitarian tactics. Perhaps this prediction has fully manifested in a more benign-looking way. We willfully and almost gleefully surrender any (and probably all) information about ourselves. And for what? Crap that we don't really need. It's a metaphor for American culture, and perhaps capitalism as a whole. We have such a precious gift in what liberties remain, yet we throw them away for material possessions.
Is it a coincidence that teens and young adults are always the target of such intense information harvesting? Perhaps it's a way to desensitize up and coming generations. Will they even know that they have the possibility to keep their lives and minds private? They will most likely fail to understand that the information provided will keep them a perpetually compulsive consumer. Who knows the marketing potential of such a vast database of various information? Do corporations really need infinite resources in the area of mind control?!
I'm going to stop there. It's probably obvious that I could go on forever. I'll get back to reading Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451.