In “Lightbox” by Emma Cleary we have the theme of the lack of privacy in our digital life. The story shows us how easy it is for people to stalk you through for example social media, you can find out everything about a person on their social platforms. Beside that it shows how a stalker thinks and acts.
“Lightbox” is about making some kind of awareness, that nothing is private on social media and everybody can get to it. This is showed by Elsie having a public profile, where she often posts what she doing as well as she writes a blog, and this makes it much easier for the stalker to follow her every day. “Elsie has uploaded a picture of the berry smoothie poised artfully over the crossword puzzle. One of the solutions was her family name Palmer. It has a lot of likes already, including some guy she works with. I click his profile picture, scroll through the pages I can. He likes nearly everything Elsie posts online (p.1, l 18-21)”. This is just one of the many times the stalker checks up on her, and here it shows how he also checks who is liking her posts and if they are a threat to him. “I go online and check her profile to see if that guy has been bothering her. (p.2, l.45-46)”. In other words, the story tells how social media makes much of our private lives public and changes the concept of privacy.
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