(Photo from You Are What You Eat.)
Today's Trendcentral post was titled, "Just Curious." It served up a new batch of sites dedicated to revealing our everyday spaces - our refrigerators, closets and work spaces.
I've written about our voyeuristic tendencies in the past. The trend touches so much of our online behavior. We silently browse people's Facebook profiles without leaving a trace behind. We pour over intimate blogs of people we have never met, watch video diaries on YouTube. We look through pictures of what's in peoples' fridges, closets, offices, bags.
The Internet has made peeking in to other people's lives that much easier. Before, we had to rely on shows like Cribs, or True Life on MTV. Indeed, the draw of reality television (The Real World, Big Brother, Real Housewives of [Fill in the Blank]) is the chance to watch someone else in their natural habitat.
But why? I read a blog post awhile ago that pointed to our innate need to belong as the driver behind our voyeurism. We want to see and be reassured that there are other people like us out there. On the other hand, isn't part of the voyeuristic fun catching a glimpse of how those different from us live? Or is it that we love being able to safely invade someone's privacy? What drives us to seek and share all those little details about our lives?
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