Technology Also Has A Price: Use With Caution
Judy Ramsook
October 04, 2005
Technology is wonderful and amazing. In a matter of seconds or minutes one can send an email to a recepient who is thousands of miles away with the ease of clicking on the send button, no snail mail or postage required.
One can also upload a digital photo image of oneself or his/her friends onto his computer so he can have a recent picture close at hand, should he need to use it.
But what if some one other than yourself takes a shot of a certain part of the anatomy, not the face, and loads it on to the computer.
And upon discovering such an image on one’s computer by say an appalled parent, an interrogation ensues.
An interrogation by that parent who happened to spot the image. And say the accused happens to be yourself, since people in the family circle have a way of blaming you for whatever awkward situation may arise, but you were not a participant in the digital photo. You were neither the person who took the picture, nor was it your body part that was on display.
And let’s say the person whose photo it is does confess to being the subject of the digital image, way before the interrogation process has had an opportunity to reach you.
How would you feel, if you found out later on from another source that it was you who were the one being accused of an act you would not even entertain in your mind?
Would you want to confront the patriarch/matriarch of the home to ask him/her why he thought it was you, or would you let the matter rest since the person who participated in the act has already confessed to his/her wrong doing?
Most people who want to keep the peace will leave the matter alone, but still, everytime you see that individual whom you heard accused you of some act you would not and have not done, the mere thought of the accusation would creep into your mind.
For just the thought of some one whom you have always looked to for guidance or a trusted face could think so little of you might bring about a change in you. A change of distance. For you might not have much to communicate to that person from that moment on.
And how did this happen? Some one else in the household became so ecstatic at the immediate gratification of digital photography, that he/she decided to take an image of part of himself/herself and load it onto the computer, without clicking on the delete button later on.
Something that might even make you want to also place some distance between you and the digital camera as well, for a while anyway. Technology is wonderful, it’s what you do with it that truly matters, use with caution.
One can also upload a digital photo image of oneself or his/her friends onto his computer so he can have a recent picture close at hand, should he need to use it.
But what if some one other than yourself takes a shot of a certain part of the anatomy, not the face, and loads it on to the computer.
And upon discovering such an image on one’s computer by say an appalled parent, an interrogation ensues.
An interrogation by that parent who happened to spot the image. And say the accused happens to be yourself, since people in the family circle have a way of blaming you for whatever awkward situation may arise, but you were not a participant in the digital photo. You were neither the person who took the picture, nor was it your body part that was on display.
And let’s say the person whose photo it is does confess to being the subject of the digital image, way before the interrogation process has had an opportunity to reach you.
How would you feel, if you found out later on from another source that it was you who were the one being accused of an act you would not even entertain in your mind?
Would you want to confront the patriarch/matriarch of the home to ask him/her why he thought it was you, or would you let the matter rest since the person who participated in the act has already confessed to his/her wrong doing?
Most people who want to keep the peace will leave the matter alone, but still, everytime you see that individual whom you heard accused you of some act you would not and have not done, the mere thought of the accusation would creep into your mind.
For just the thought of some one whom you have always looked to for guidance or a trusted face could think so little of you might bring about a change in you. A change of distance. For you might not have much to communicate to that person from that moment on.
And how did this happen? Some one else in the household became so ecstatic at the immediate gratification of digital photography, that he/she decided to take an image of part of himself/herself and load it onto the computer, without clicking on the delete button later on.
Something that might even make you want to also place some distance between you and the digital camera as well, for a while anyway. Technology is wonderful, it’s what you do with it that truly matters, use with caution.
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