{"id":12357,"date":"2023-11-22T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/its-not-a-public-service-its-toxic-welcome-to-the-world-of-gossip-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:38:32","slug":"its-not-a-public-service-its-toxic-welcome-to-the-world-of-gossip-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/its-not-a-public-service-its-toxic-welcome-to-the-world-of-gossip-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not a public service, it\u2019s toxic\u2019: welcome to the world of gossip surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTokers are sharing strangers\u2019 conversations, hoping to expose gossipers to the very people they\u2019re talking about. Is the humiliation worth it?<\/p>\n<p>Marissa Meizz was out to dinner with a friend when her phone started vibrating. It was an unusually frenzied buzz, unresponsive to the silence button \u2013 a flood of texts from friends, acquaintances and even an \u201coffline\u201d aunt all linking to a TikTok video titled \u201cSend this to Marissa in NYC\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She froze. Then she started watching.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/nov\/22\/tiktok-overheard-gossip-sharing-trend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/59be39f19ab7e35ba1913745852dd337456255cd\/0_0_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=28fc29b55955eab85e508c6c1d918916\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s not a public service, it\u2019s toxic\u2019: welcome to the world of gossip surveillance\" \/>TikTokers are sharing strangers\u2019 conversations, hoping to expose gossipers to the very people they\u2019re talking about. Is the humiliation worth it?<br \/>\nMarissa Meizz was out to dinner with a friend when her phone started vibrating. It was an unusually frenzied buzz, unresponsive to the silence button \u2013 a flood of texts from friends, acquaintances and even an \u201coffline\u201d aunt all linking to a TikTok video titled \u201cSend this to Marissa in NYC\u201d.<br \/>\nShe froze. Then she started watching. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTokers are sharing strangers\u2019 conversations, hoping to expose gossipers to the very people they\u2019re talking about. Is the humiliation worth it? Marissa Meizz was out to dinner with a friend when her phone started vibrating. It was an unusually frenzied buzz, unresponsive to the silence button \u2013 a flood of texts from friends, acquaintances and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/its-not-a-public-service-its-toxic-welcome-to-the-world-of-gossip-surveillance\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s not a public service, it\u2019s toxic\u2019: welcome to the world of gossip surveillance<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}