Permissive voyeurism.
In this day and age when communication has been reduced to opening our laptops and logging into a social networking site, which updates us on who is doing what, where they are doing it, who they are doing it with and how they are feeling. ( Yes the sentence is laced with innuendo.) We are permitting people to look into our lives. We are practically inviting these people to our virtual homes and letting them inspect the varying elements of our life which we have voluntarily shared with them. Hence the phrase “permissive voyeurism”. We may not talk to every one of our “friends” on the site. We may not even know those people. We use discretion and add strangers on our pages and thereby we are letting these people into our lives. These people who constitute our “friends”, “followers” get a glimpse of how we think and our life style and our whereabouts and close friend circle. So when I bump into an acquaintance who greets me with, “ Hey convey my congratulations to your brot...