"Webcams and can include alarms that send
E-mail alerts about suspicious or unexpected events to a designated recipient"(Kahner).
Now families feel a little more comfortable in their home because of the surveillance use of webcams. Webcams allow surveillance of intimacy, and pornography, which fulfills viewers' desires.
Normally people use webcams to communicate visibly, but now there intimately communicating in their own private ways.
Having people watch your every second movement entertains most people to come back and watch again. The internet provides websites or your own web page made for private use of webcams. In the article "Watch
Me", the author feels that "with the Internet, we are able to watch the daily habits of just about anyone who cares to share them. In many ways, this exposure of the self shifts the surveillance model"(Knight). Relationships on the internet is another topic that webcams has an effect on for the better. It has been researched that little under half of Americans today meet each other and have relationships from the internet. From what was learned in class, at beginning the internet allowed people to give their own self-presentation. It also gave a process of setting forth an image we want others to perceive us as, which can be harmful. Webcams now have eliminated the ideas of gender swapping, pseudonyms, and completely changing ones own identity.
People who use webcams now can actually see the person so they know exactly how one is describing their