Eden-Final Blog Prompt Response

 I believe that Owen Mundy's, "I Know Where Your Cat Lives", successfully reflects our current culture. This work, which looks innocent and even funny or lighthearted at first, is a deeper reflection on online privacy. A lot of viewers will immediately try to find pictures of their own cats on the website, or look at their own street to see if they recognize any cats posted. The audience will probably wonder how or why these cats are posted here, and why some photos are blacked out. The part that may make the audience reflect and think is also the scariest part; this is incredibly easy information to get. Pretty much all images posted online have embedded code of where exactly it was uploaded from. Though this website seems innocent enough, something I think the artist was intending, whose to say this exact thing can't be done with children or other loved ones? Sure, "I Know Where Your Loved Ones Live" may scare people off and definitely get banned, it could be done just as easily as finding out where your cat lives. As a current online culture, it is not uncommon for everyone to post exactly where they are at any given time. Any bit of maintaining privacy is forgotten without care, and can lead to a plethora of scary outcomes. A lot of the owners of these cats of course found it violating to have their cat's (and by an extension their own), posted to this website, which is why some images are blacked out. However, with information that is so easily obtained, how mad can they be? This is also a commentary on a sort of moral grey zone that our online culture has- was it wrong to post to this information, when it was so easy to get?