In defense of the meta glasses,

In defense of the meta glasses, Vintage shopping in NYC you get to watch your life back. exactly how you see and live it. Or that's what it's sold as anyway. Except I think about how people behave when a camera is on them or through the lens of Instagram. And that's not their authentic self, that's a performance of self for an audience. So what exactly are the meta glasses capturing? If we normalize the wear of surveillance glasses, we are fashioning towards an audience. We're not just dipping in and out of an audience like we do when we take photos for Instagram, but actively performing for it. I kind of view this from the lens of an Instagram dump, but times a million. The notion of capturing your everyday for Instagram has completely changed how people eat, where they eat, where they shop, who even hang out with. For the chance of being able to document that is how you live your life. And the meta glasses feel like that, but even more sinister. At the cost of surveillance and endangering everyone around you, we have this new opportunity to document exactly how you live your life. I can already imagine influencers posting their day in the life routines from the lens of meta glasses that probably be entirely fictitious and also likely doxing their own location and their habits and their daily routines. As soon as meta glasses seems so embedded in the everyday public, that's when surely everybody's behaviour will change accordingly. You'll have the wearers of meta glasses constantly performing for an audience in real time, and then you have the public and passers by fashioning themselves accordingly. The perfect example is this analogy of, like, "Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs" . More young partygoers are worrying about looking goofy on camera, prompting some artists to wonder if social media is killing dance. That behaviour is a product of surveillance because people change how they act when they know they're being recorded. And that behaviour in itself is limiting. And that is what we'll see, I think we've made to glasses in public. I think it will largely change now how people express themselves, how people go about their day, where potentially people go, what places they start avoiding because they don't want to be seen. And that's not to say have something to hide, but it's to say how much people don't want to be documented. And this is behaviour we've already seen. It's like the Manchester nightlife videos. Girls who were recorded just out and about unknowingly, on their way, on the way back from the club, will just not have gone out anymore? And the rise of this content, it feels like we're gonna enter a very diluted society and a dangerous one regarding both authenticity and safety. I think what's understandable is we'll see this behaviour change as a result of people not going certain places. I'm really interested in how people's behaviour will change within these spaces. So we all then start behaving and performing differently for this potential audience at all times. I'm really intrigued to research this more if you feel like this is something you've been affected by as a member of public, as a passer by, would love to hear from you. Of course we need protection and legislation to protect the public from more than just this performance of self for social media. I, like I said, have a whole separate video about the more potentially imminent harms from these glasses. But I think this is a very interesting and setting to behaviour that will be the byproduct of these glasses. Thank you so much for listening. I really enjoyed putting this one together. I would love to hear your thoughts and the long episode for this one will be out soon. Taboo OFF the Bus So-called 'manfluencers' trying to pick up women. Smart glasses are their perfect tool Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs