In the past, the borders of private life were completely closed to others. When we say privacy, conflicts in the family, an unpleasant incident with a close friend, even your quarrel with your spouse were hidden from others.
Even the quickest hooligans used to have a sense of privacy. They would forever deny their relationship with any woman, let alone brag about what they had done. In today’s world, the boundaries of private life are very different now. Now, we can easily access information about the private life of an ordinary person we do not know anywhere in the world, photos, images, what time, where and with whom he met.
Because people can easily present their personal information to others in virtual sharing environments. He enjoys adding his photos that they would not want even their closest relatives to see. At first, nobody realized that the technological revolution would also reshape morality among very different cultures. In the past, even the lives of celebrities were not so visible, now everyone lives a star life in their own way.
Thanks to new technological developments, a situation has emerged where everyone is each other’s paparazzi. People are constantly taking pictures with their cell phones, even in nightclubs. It’s easy to see yourself on the facebook page of someone you don’t even know.
It has become very easy to record someone on a hidden camera with spy tools that are easily sold around. Leave it aside; A photograph taken by your lover, a moment of lovemaking that you record to make a fantasy, can then pass into the hands of others in various ways.
In fact, in a very interesting way, everyone carries all the details of their private life on their desks. On your mobile phone, on your computer… Moreover, it is not difficult for these devices to be stolen or lost, and to access the information here. Let alone the state’s eavesdropping, secret recordings, and the work of some services, everything you do is recorded, even as an ordinary person.
There are cameras in the streets almost everywhere in the world. Police cameras, security cameras, on the road, workplaces, hotels, stores, shopping malls, airports, stations, sites, some apartments, doctor’s offices, lawyers’ offices, elevators, nightclubs, restaurants, almost anywhere you can think of keep records 24 hours a day.
Who you call from your phones, your messages are not deleted with the thought that it may create a crime later.
How secure is your mail and correspondence on the computer, that is another question. In the past, there was a phrase called ‘falling into the swamp’; Nowadays, there is a phrase called ‘to fall on the Internet’. We may think that this kind of thing only happens to celebrities, but in fact, even high school students post weird images of each other on the internet; Spouses who have separated and quarreled, lovers can spread private details here to take revenge. In fact, even without your knowledge, a page can be opened and broadcast on your behalf until you realize it.
At any time, a record of yours can appear on the Internet.
No one is untouchable anymore. Especially if you’re famous…
But there is another interesting aspect of the matter. Celebrities whose sex tapes have been strewn around so far have benefited a lot from this situation. Think Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears. Let’s say that’s their job, what would you say to Berlusconi, Sarkozy and Clinton, whose private lives were revealed to be unconventional? Just as we have seen women in bikinis every summer for all these years, bikini magazines still sell well in the most developed countries of the world, our curiosity and gossip obsession with the privacy and secret life of others does not seem to diminish.
Being famous, being a name that everyone knows, makes you an object of entertainment for others in a sense. You are expected to satisfy this craving for fun, not only with your job, but also with the life you live. The more you meet this expectation, the more famous you become.
At the same time, all these scandals that have arisen also enable the audience to tame and normalize all the situations in which the readers have experienced or wanted to live in their own lives, but have been prevented in some way. Perhaps this is the main reason for the growing curiosity.