In Emma Teitel’s article “The New Paparazzi” she expresses
her opinion of the dangers of social media. CW Leadbeater once said “You are
what you share” and this article agrees with this opinion. The article not only explores and informs readers about the dangers of social media but also the hazards of parties and how the paparazzi has been handed over from reporters to teens with camera phones
In reality some of what the article argues comes off as
exaggerated. It talks about not being able to “attend a social gathering
without it ending up on Facebook” when really a person is able to go out and
not get a picture taken. People take pictures of themselves or with their
friends but not of random scenes of a party or an outing. The article also
talks about using digital cameras at gatherings and how they have become “house
gathering staples” when digital cameras are not present. The only cameras are the
ones that appear on cell phones. Future employers may go to Facebook to look at
accounts or twitter but if a photo is posted by a person with them in it
generally it is cropped to make it more presentable if they are holding
something inappropriate. If a person is tagged in a photo by a friend and they
don’t believe they look acceptable or presentable they can simply untag
themselves from the photo on Facebook. To this day the majority of the high
school population has been to at least one party and it’s rare for someone not
to have attended one. This generation is a social networking one. Employers
don’t want someone who isn’t social or good with interacting with others. They
like personable people who are confident and outgoing. Would someone who isn’t
social make for a good employee? 
Facebook creates a way for people to “anonymously invade the
privacy of people [one] doesn’t really know” this aspect is very true. It
allows people to “creep” or “stalk” others without them knowing. Anyone in the
world could be looking at anyone else’s profile whether or not they are
someone’s next door neighbor or are halfway around the world. This aspect can
be very disturbing in the way Facebook gives everyone the capability to look
through any one person’s photos if their privacy isn’t on the highest settings.
It can be useful if someone has a friend has an album of something in which
they were present at or they went on a holiday and posted pictures of it but
when someone who doesn’t know a person is creeping then that can be disturbing
although almost everyone does it. The fact that one will never know who has
looked at their profile and the amount of times they have is alarming although
and the article specifies that well.
The article vastly
expresses the unlimited concerns about social media although some things don’t
seem as legitimate as the article tries to make them come across as. Cameras at parties are extremely rare but
cell phones do have them and people do take pictures even though the vast
majority of them are of themselves taking a “selfie” either by themselves or
with their friends. It is rare for
someone to go out and snap a picture of someone else and post it on Facebook “without
his or her permission”. Most people when
at parties know that it “is not appropriate behavior to take pictures of others
without consent” and treat each other how they would want to be treated. The article
clearly outlines many of the dangers of social media and is informative to
those who are unaware and precautions them about the existing dangers of
parties, social media, and cameras.
