In The Overly Documented Life the
author A.J. Jacobs sets out on a self-exploration trip by buying a Looxcie
camera to document his life by filming all day every day. The idea of
Lifeblogging scared the author at the start but he started to like it as the
article went on. Being able to look back and solve every argument or find
anything lost seems like it would be great. But the author soon found out that
the proof doesn’t always make the situation better. Watching the recorded argument
with his wife seems like it would help to solve the fight but in the end makes
it worse. His sons doesn’t even bother listening to the argument that his
father had saved. After being somewhat on the fence of lifeblogging the author
soon invest in more apps and gadgets just to track what he is doing. He almost
becomes obsessed with tracking his life the going back and watching it all
over. This seems ridiculous to me. We only get one shot at life why waste all
this time and money on lifeblogging. I don’t always want to be recording my
conversations or activates. After this experiment done by the author he seems
to almost have become a robot trying to maximize his efficiency at life. I can’t
see the fun in that. We are humans not machines. We are supposed to make
mistakes and not always be productive. I think lifeblogging could go too far
and end up taking over lives of people downloading recordings and spending
money on all the products.
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