Naked Crowd Essay
Emily Marshall
English 10
Daniel Frank
10 March 2013
Nakedness
“Why is it that American anxiety about identity has led us to value exposure over privacy? Why, in short, are we so eager to become members of the Naked Crowd, in which we have the illusion of belonging only when we are exposed?” Jeffrey Rosen wrote in, “The Naked Crowd”, about something that probably 85% of the United Sates was guilty of. He got intimate with us. He brought down the guard of our computer screens and iPhones. He makes us exposed by our exposure on the Internet. Rosen wonders, just like myself, why people use the Internet to share their darkest secrets? Why are people so open online? Jeffrey Rosen opens up the doors trying to expose these people. To him it seems as if Americans are so obsessed with putting themselves out there for people to see and he is trying to figure out why that is such a big deal to all of us. Why, we as a society are so interested in the way others view us and if we are not open enough, people will not accept us. Rosen’s passage proves to his audience how greedy and prideful our society was raised up to be. He kept bring up the fact of how people are so obsessed with their image in others eyes and that if they don’t share their whole hearts with strangers then they can’t be trusted. He says that we are at an “age of individualism rather then individuality”. Saying that we are more worried about being an important individual then being ourselves and not caring what others thinks. “…Will feel pressure to parcel out bits of personal information in order to allow unseen strangers to experience a sense a vicarious identification” (Rosen). I understand why Rosen puts this sentence into his article because there is that constant pressure to be open to the public on the Internet. Our society is a society of takers, not givers I feel like. And through this, we are always asking for more and more. Jeffrey Rosen also talks about September 11th and stated that
English 10
Daniel Frank
10 March 2013
Nakedness
“Why is it that American anxiety about identity has led us to value exposure over privacy? Why, in short, are we so eager to become members of the Naked Crowd, in which we have the illusion of belonging only when we are exposed?” Jeffrey Rosen wrote in, “The Naked Crowd”, about something that probably 85% of the United Sates was guilty of. He got intimate with us. He brought down the guard of our computer screens and iPhones. He makes us exposed by our exposure on the Internet. Rosen wonders, just like myself, why people use the Internet to share their darkest secrets? Why are people so open online? Jeffrey Rosen opens up the doors trying to expose these people. To him it seems as if Americans are so obsessed with putting themselves out there for people to see and he is trying to figure out why that is such a big deal to all of us. Why, we as a society are so interested in the way others view us and if we are not open enough, people will not accept us. Rosen’s passage proves to his audience how greedy and prideful our society was raised up to be. He kept bring up the fact of how people are so obsessed with their image in others eyes and that if they don’t share their whole hearts with strangers then they can’t be trusted. He says that we are at an “age of individualism rather then individuality”. Saying that we are more worried about being an important individual then being ourselves and not caring what others thinks. “…Will feel pressure to parcel out bits of personal information in order to allow unseen strangers to experience a sense a vicarious identification” (Rosen). I understand why Rosen puts this sentence into his article because there is that constant pressure to be open to the public on the Internet. Our society is a society of takers, not givers I feel like. And through this, we are always asking for more and more. Jeffrey Rosen also talks about September 11th and stated that