Today
I'm walking home from class and there's this guy walking toward me, a tourist probably and he has his arm outstretched and he's holding a phone. He's recording the scene. We're on a bridge over a river, I'm just trying to cross it and get home and I can't really go anywhere except walk faster. Hes moving his arm around to get everything in and then he points it directly at me and I turn my head to try get out of the shot.
This happens every day at least once, tourists trying to capture an authentic scene. It bugs the hell out of me. CCTV is one thing. But the bloody general public and their blasted camera phones.They just film whatever and whoever and think its their right to post it on youtube or facebook and some stupid social media site. I never gave my consent to be filmed and I'm sick of it...Why is my face (which surely is mine and nobody elses) why is it that the decision to capture it and post it somewhere else is not my decision. Just getting to and from class everyday I am unavoidably caught in some cameraphone or other.
I would never point a camera phone at a complete stranger. I think its incredibly bad manners and more than that, invasive.
I'm walking home from class and there's this guy walking toward me, a tourist probably and he has his arm outstretched and he's holding a phone. He's recording the scene. We're on a bridge over a river, I'm just trying to cross it and get home and I can't really go anywhere except walk faster. Hes moving his arm around to get everything in and then he points it directly at me and I turn my head to try get out of the shot.
This happens every day at least once, tourists trying to capture an authentic scene. It bugs the hell out of me. CCTV is one thing. But the bloody general public and their blasted camera phones.They just film whatever and whoever and think its their right to post it on youtube or facebook and some stupid social media site. I never gave my consent to be filmed and I'm sick of it...Why is my face (which surely is mine and nobody elses) why is it that the decision to capture it and post it somewhere else is not my decision. Just getting to and from class everyday I am unavoidably caught in some cameraphone or other.
I would never point a camera phone at a complete stranger. I think its incredibly bad manners and more than that, invasive.