Response 3, JacobH

With both jennicam and wearable technology, the bots that they were creating appeared to be an extremely accurate representation of their real lives. They were little more than documentation. Despite this, I don’t think those bots are an accurate representation of who their creators truly are. Weather they are aware of it or not, people act differently when they know they are being watched. I, for example, enjoy singing, but I am very bad at it. I won’t sing when I know someone is watching because I don’t want to torcher the observer or embarrass myself. While Jenni claimed that she didn’t mind being watched, I think it still affected her personality on a level that she may not have realized. I don’t consciously act different when I am in public, but even when no one is directly observing me, I am a different person.

These two bots appear to be documents about someone’s life, but without meeting these people face to face, there is no way of knowing for sure if they are accurate or not. A good portion of Jenni’s life was on camera, but she could have been hiding anything off camera or between shots. Weather these documentations were real or not, it doesn’t affect the possibilities. We can really be anyone we want on the internet. We can change or race, gender, personality or any other feature that we like. The only thing I don’t understand is why I would want to do this.