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Social Media as Neighbor’s Window
Is Social Media acting as a Neighbor’s window for us?
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Recently, I watched an Oscar-winning short movie Neighbor’s Window on YouTube, as suggested by my husband.
Of course, an Oscar-winning movie can’t be just ordinary. I had to watch this movie.
This 20-minute movie shows how we tend to look out our Neighbors’ windows and forget to consider what’s happening in our lives.
The movie shows an apartment where a family of four, a couple in their 30s with their kids, live. These couples observe that the apartment, just in front of their own, has recently been occupied by a young couple who seem to be enjoying their lives. They’re not conscious of privacy as they don’t have any curtains and are engaged in intimate acts which makes the couples in their 30s jealous.
The couples in their 30s feel that they’ve lost the spark in their lives being burdened by the responsibilities of raising the kids and taking care of other household chores.
All they’re interested in is looking at what’s happening in their Neighbor’s Apartment using binoculars. That would entertain them as they find the young couple’s life more…