Josh Harris seemed like a very interesting man, and the documentary “We Live in Public” really showed this. He seems very smart, as he made predictions about the internet and about how the internet would ultimately dominate, predictions that came true. He knew the internet had the power to do so much more than television and radio did, and that it would ultimately come out on top. He soon became rich and successful, although his strange behavior soon had him moving away from the typical business industry. He then came up with an interesting project. People could sign up to be in an area where everything was free. To get in, they had to give a certain amount of information about themselves personally. The people lived their lives there doing whatever they want while being filmed. Everything they did was documented. This was a big deal. It proved to be a really insane project that captured all different kinds of sides of the people that it filmed. It allowed for capturing insane behavior that people expressed. People were interviewed and had to answer personal, sometimes humiliating questions about themselves. The ironic thing about it was, it was to show what the internet would ultimately do to us as human beings. It was a scary thought, but the internet would ultimately be keeping track of all kinds of crazy things we did it our lives, keeping it on record forever. After that project ended, Harris came up with a new project, where he and his girlfriend would live their lives while cameras everywhere documented everything they did. It went to show just how much a daily life can change if everyone in public has access to see and comment on it. It had a rough impact on Harris’s relationship with his girlfriend, who ultimately left, leaving him by himself. It was eerie just seeing how this caused him to behave and how this changed him. Having everything you do be seen by the public can be a really hard thing to get through. Although, with the internet advancing, this is becoming more and more normal. The internet keeps track of all your activity there and it does not ever go away. When Harris wanted to set up more projects, he was not able to get support because of all the history he had. If someone has a rough history online, there are people out there who can see that. Nothing online ever fully goes away. What is worse is that we have come to accept this and have no problem with it. A lot of us go online knowing that everything we do is being recorded, but this does not stop us from making the internet a very significant part of our modern society. This is a somewhat frightening thing to think about. The internet is making our daily lives more and more public and making life more and more like Harris’s experiments. As crazy as they seemed then, they are now becoming the normal way we function in our online society.

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