It used to be a private space

From my point of view, mobile technologies blur the boundary of private and public space to a great extent. Let’s use Global Positioning System (GPS) as an example to demonstrate my arguments. Every smartphone has GPS installed nowadays and it is extremely useful for us in searching and finding unfamiliar or unclear destination, such as buildings and streets.

However, your friends may have a chance to detect your location through social media platform (Facebook) by using its particular function. It sounds awful but your private space is no longer secure unless you change your privacy settings and your whereabouts becomes a public space while you may not realize at all.

To a great extent, the blurring of the boundary is favorable to our daily life. Using an incident of whether the teenagers should offer their seats to the elderly as an example, it actually could practice our critical thinking towards the behavior of the teenagers, the standard and atmosphere of our society nowadays whether we should give our seats to everyone in need in the MTR although we are very tired after work or we are actually ill but the other passengers have not noticed that at all.

Thus, once we set our post into public or the others share throughout the Facebook, it no longer becomes our private space and it may brings out different discussion of the performance and characteristic of someone by taking photos using our smartphones and upload it to social media platforms.

Student Name: Chu Chi Wai