It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
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Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
I was at a workshop once and we got talking (off-topic) about how fucked up it is that people do this. And because we were all teachers, we started talking about fucked up it is that people do this in schools. Like our principal will take photos and videos of everything that goes down at the school and post it on fb, with students' whole faces in it and everything. And most people don't even question it. But I was (and remain) shocked that that's allowed, or that anyone responsible for these kids' safety would do that.
And one of the guys in the workshop spoke up. He teaches in maximum security prisons. Angering or offending the wrong person could mean real danger for him and his family. For this reason, he keeps very private. He doesn't tell his students any personal details about him, and keeps himself and his family very low-key on social media, and sets really clear boundaries around sharing his and his family's info. So imagine his surprise to go online one day and see that his young son's elementary school had publicly posted a photo with his son's face, full name, and location. The school knew the family's situation, and this guy had specifically told the school not to share anything about his son on social media for safety reasons. But it's just so normal to share photos of people without their consent that nobody even bothered to consider that they may be crossing boundaries.
People are allowed all kinds of reasons for not wanting their face or actions online. People are entitled to decide for themselves whether they appear on the internet, and to control what and where and in what context they are shared. Just go home and tell the silly story of that person mysteriously buying a single banana at the grocery store - no need to become a mass-surveillance network about it ffs. You never know who you are putting in danger.
