During brain numbing dives of browsing YouTube & Reddit Idiocracy, I am often fed video shorts of people filming themselves at the gym, on the beach, in dance clubs, doing stunts, or dancing in public spaces when someone walks past their camera disrupting the video.
The person creating the video of himself or herself, gets exasperated that a passerby didn’t have the courtesy to wait until the video was completed before walking past. In the days of yore (before 2010), people occasionally posed for pictures or videos and everyone else would wait, walk around or even offer to help.
That was because taking photos then was a rare event. Those days are gone. Now almost everyone is staring at their phone constantly – except when they are posing for selfie photos and videos. There is nothing special about someone being recorded anymore.
My guess is we will all be recorded all the time, everywhere soon. I’m sure we’d be surprised if we knew how many ring cameras record us when we walk down the street, the number of videos there are of us at the store, the gym, within eye line of ATMs, and from security cameras that have become ubiquitous.
Privacy is rapidly disappearing.
The good news is that nobody cares at all about you. Or me. Or most people. They won’t even see you – even if you are on camera.