Architects of digital transparency, technologists of openness, venture capitalists and, of course, entrepreneurs like Reid Hoffman, Biz Stone and Mark Pincus who are all massively profiting from all these real identities generating enormous amounts of their own personal data. That's who are transforming this "dream" of the ubiquitous social network into a reality. So what, exactly, are we telling the world when we use networks like Rob Glaser's SocialEyes, the "social serendipity engine" Shaker or Sean Parker's Airtime—the social network, you'll remember, designed, in Parker's words, to "eliminate loneliness."

The analog age of the great exhibition is now being replaced by the digital age of great exhibitionism.In 1787, at the dawn of the mass industrial age, Jeremy Bentham designed what he called a "simple idea in architecture" to improve the management of prisons, hospitals, schools and factories. Bentham's idea was, as the architectural historian Robin Evans noted, a "vividly imaginative" synthesis of architectural form with social purpose.2 Bentham, who amassed great personal wealth as a result of his social vision,3 wanted to change the world through this new architecture. Mainstone, J. C.; Bruce, A. S.; Golding, T. R. (June 1996). "Tear meniscus measurement in the diagnosis of dry eye". Current Eye Research. 15 (6): 653–661. doi: 10.3109/02713689609008906. ISSN 0271-3683. PMID 8670769.

Dry eyes because of CVS can also be treated using moisture chamber glasses or humidifier machines. Office spaces with artificially dry air can worsen CVS syndromes, in which case, a desktop or a room humidifier can help the eyes keep a healthy moisture level. Yes, the fictional Sean Parker from The Social Network got it right: First we lived in villages, then in cities and now we are increasingly living online. And the truth is that today it's hard to actually think of an Internet start-up whose products or services aren't embracing the web's new social architecture. This revolution in sharing our personal data extends to every imaginable nook and crevice of both the online and offline world. Even a partial list makes one's head spin. So the next few paragraph are best read sitting down. Healthline has strict sourcing guidelines and relies on peer-reviewed studies, academic research institutions, and medical associations. We avoid using tertiary references. You can learn more about how we ensure our content is accurate and current by reading our editorial policy.

Computer Vision Syndrome Affects Millions". 2016-05-30. Archived from the original on 2018-02-10 . Retrieved 2018-04-09. There has, consequently, been a massive increase in what Shirky calls "self-produced" legibility, thereby making society as easy to read as an open book.25 As a society, we are, to borrow some words from Jeremy Bentham, becoming our own collective image. This contemporary mania with our own self-expression is what two leading American psychologists, Dr. Jean Twenge and Dr. Keith Campbell, have described as "the narcissism epidemic"26—a self-promotional madness driven, these two psychologists say, by our need to continually manufacture our own fame to the world. The Silicon Valley–based psychiatrist, Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, whose 2011 book, Virtually You, charts the rise of what he calls "the self-absorbed online Narcissus," shares Twenge and Campbell's pessimism. The Internet, Dr. Aboujaoude notes, gives narcissists the opportunity to "fall in love with themselves all over again," thereby creating a online world of infinite "self-promotion" and "shallow web relationships."27

The Panopticon's connective technology would bring us together by separating us, Bentham calculated. Transforming us into fully transparent exhibits would be good for both society and the individual, he adduced, because the more we imagined we were being watched, the more efficient and disciplined we would each become. Both the individual and the community would, therefore, benefit from this network of Auto-Icons. "Ideal perfection," the utilitarian figured, taking this supposedly social idea to its most chillingly anti-social conclusion, would require that everyone—from connected prisoners to connected workers to connected school children to connected citizens—could be inspected "every instant of time."8Even time itself, both the past and the future, is becoming social. Proust, a social network designed to store our memories, is trying—presumably in an attempt to emulate the eponymous French novelist—to socialize the past.136 There are "social discovery" engines like The Hotlist and Plancast that have aggregated information from over 100 million Web users that enables us to not only see where our friends have been and currently are located but also to predict where they will be in the future. There is even a social "intentionality" app from Ditto that enables you to share what you will and should do with everyone on your network,137 while the WhereBerry social networking service enables us to tell our friends what movies we want to see and restaurants that we'd like to try. Yet now, at the dusk of the industrial and the dawn of the digital epoch, Bentham's simple idea of architecture has returned. But history never repeats itself, not identically, at least. Today, as the Web evolves from a platform for impersonal data into an Internet of people, Bentham's industrial Inspection-House has reappeared with a chilling digital twist. What we once saw as a prison is now considered as a playground; what was considered pain is today viewed as pleasure. Porcar, E.; Pons, A. M.; Lorente, A. (2016). "Visual and ocular effects from the use of flat-panel displays". International Journal of Ophthalmology. 9 (6): 881–885. doi: 10.18240/ijo.2016.06.16. ISSN 2222-3959. PMC 4916147. PMID 27366692.