Big Brother and "Look at Me"

The big fear about the future (from back when) was that we would suffer under a "big brother" government. No doubt, new technology has enabled this reality.

But either because of our already assumed lack of privacy or as an ironic "tweak" of the establishment's power of surveillance, we have become more willing than ever to reveal what was once private. The "Look at Me" generation has embraced public sharing of private communication on Facebook message boards, in broadcasting their lives in real time on http://www.qik.com/, telling the world what they are doing "right now" on Twitter, where they are on RadiusIM or what they look like on Flickr.

The Big Brother Society, notably, is one enabled not by an oppressive government, but by an exhibitionist populace.