Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
I’m glad someone is saying this, because frankly this whole situation is nasty as shit.
Are cheaters bad? Yes. Should people have informed the spouses? Yes. But that’s not why people are posting memes about this non-stop, this is just schadenfreude.
There are reasons beyond cheating why 2 people may not want to be broadcast to the world as a couple. If this was 2 men, we’d all understand the problems with this, but social media is not going to allow us the nuance to differentiate; social media’s desire to play righteous sleuth for its own entertainment and ego is not a good thing, and we can’t make it only do good.
Is no one even considering whether their spouses want this level of attention, rather than the entire Internet deciding to make it national news for a week?
You’re absolutely right, there are consequences for people other than the cheating couple, and that is something to consider. It just sucks that you can’t even go to a concert anymore without thinking deeply about how you might be observed.
I’m glad someone is saying this, because frankly this whole situation is nasty as shit.
Are cheaters bad? Yes. Should people have informed the spouses? Yes. But that’s not why people are posting memes about this non-stop, this is just schadenfreude.
There are reasons beyond cheating why 2 people may not want to be broadcast to the world as a couple. If this was 2 men, we’d all understand the problems with this, but social media is not going to allow us the nuance to differentiate; social media’s desire to play righteous sleuth for its own entertainment and ego is not a good thing, and we can’t make it only do good.
Is no one even considering whether their spouses want this level of attention, rather than the entire Internet deciding to make it national news for a week?
You’re absolutely right, there are consequences for people other than the cheating couple, and that is something to consider. It just sucks that you can’t even go to a concert anymore without thinking deeply about how you might be observed.