Transparency to a Circle

When I'm by myself, I tend to blast my music loudly and then sing and dance around my dorm room. Sometimes I even do it when there are other people around, but you've got to be close to me to get that privilege. I think it'd be harm for concern if someone were monitoring my terrible singing. That being said, the idea of being transparent would absolutely scare me to no end. Anyone having the ability, or want, to watch every little move I make would make me feel extremely uncomfortable as well. The idea of transparency, a way to perceive a person so their motives are clear, is such a negative way to keep tabs on a person. Although Mae had gotten used to having these people watch her, I don't think I'd ever be able to do so.

Daily, Mae would put on a necklace to show the world of her own small world; essentially they got to see every little move that she made throughout her day. Mae eventually started to communicate with her viewers and narrate parts of her everyday life to them like "here were are in the gym". Being transparent allows Mae to have little to no privacy, but she forgets about that with the fact that she has such a large following. She began to care more about numbers and social media presence than she ever had before all because of the amount of people she had watching her on a daily basis.

The Circlers around campus also began to adopt new attitudes. Being on camera caused them to become more professional and act different around Mae than they usually would. Many people around campus already know her due to her becoming transparent; this is evidenced when Georgia pretends to not know Mae for the sake of the camera. This is rise for concern since the camera is causing people to act a different way compared to how they normally would before Mae became transparent.

Many consumers begin wanting to interact with Mae on a one-to-one basis through customer experience. Instead of answering customer's questions about products, she ended up becoming caught up in personal interactions with people. It distracted her from the bubble that she had been living in for so long and gave her some genuine human interaction, even if it was over the internet and not in person. This displays that her transparency is slowly eating away at her although she seems to love interacting with her audience whenever she can.

Her transparency has also hurt the people she loves. It has effected her relationship with Annie, her parents, and Mercer. Annie envies Mae's situation, Mae's parents have a strained relationship with her, and Mercer no longer wishes to hold any form of friendship with her. Mae had even angrily walked into her parents room with the camera around her neck to her mother performing oral sex on her father. This harshly effects Mae's relationship with her parents since they did not like the whole idea of the cameras in the first place and now have their sex life broadcast to Mae's entire audience.

Going transparent not only changed Mae, but also effected the life of the people around her. At first it felt strange for her to always have a camera around her neck, but she eventually fell into habit and enjoyed having an audience to talk to. Even when an awkward situation arised Mae managed to block everything out and keep control of herself, at least she thought she was anyway.