I started to view Big Brother as a spy or a camera. He is very secret about everything and watches everything you do. There is no privacy. Some of my group members said about this Big Brother as another kind of Hitler. While reading, that didn't even come to my mind but now that the idea is out there it very much makes sense! Both very controlling, wanting to be on top, and both willing to do whatever it takes to make others obey them and do what they believe and want. This book started to make me mad a little bit because this Big Brother can tell these people anything they want and they have to believe it and obey by it. The fact that it is alright to change history just blows my mind. It makes me think that it is possible for something like this to happen in the very far future because honestly anything can happen. I've started to learn that.
I think the Big Brother in today's society could be our government. I know they don't have cameras every where we are but they have other ways of using technology to see a lot more about every individual and I think that's something we don't really realize. We all do have some sort of privacy, we're not being watched like people are in the book, but when it comes to facebook it is easy for anyone to get information on a stranger. This is a facebook users responsibility to makes sure everything on your profile is set to private, you can even go as far as making yourself unsearchable! If nothing is private though then that gives anyone the right to look and observe your information and to do what they want with it. In this sense we do not have a lot of privacy and it is kind of scary that it is that easy to find information about someone.
