So firstly, I don't have an Instagram account because, well, I don't have an iphone. I would love an iphone, but only for the reason that it takes such amazing photos on the phone and then with the simplicity of Instagram you can upload the image straight away. I do however, have many friends and people I know that make use of this application and had a look at some background knowledge about it.
The thing is, it allows all of us to become like the paparazzi. It can make celebrities out of the ordinary Joe. "If Instagram is helping birth a new breed of paparazzi, we might need a new breed of privacy law to counteract it", says Derrick Harris, writer for website Gigaom. It just seems that it's becoming easier and easier for one to snap and publish photos of everyone and in a world where they can spread faster and faster.
The ease of sharing photos and not thinking of the implications can lead to people losing their jobs, ruining relationships and possibly even facing a jail sentence. The legal questions would come into play with self-publishing, social media and viral content raise. It seems that you can no longer go out in anonymity but risk going out and becoming "an Instagram post away from being part of the digital record and possibly the subject of public ridicule".
Times are changing and it seems that if you miss a step, you will most probably fall behind.
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