Facebook - --- a new form of Surveillance

'There is a complex, multi-layered interplay between the surveillant gaze – embedded in communication technologies – and in everyday personal communication routines at an individual level; this is giving way to a new surveillance, where the act is consensual and guilt (of convenience and pleasure with a cost) shared. Newer media technologies are restructuring the nature of information-sharing and communications on a day-to-day basis, with long-term influences we have yet to see.'

This quote seemed particularly pertinent with the route I was going with self-surveillance technology and interfaces such as facebook and mobilephone apps. To elaborate, exploring that surveillance on the internet (and specifically social networking sites) is working on a new level, where we invite the gaze bringing up new issues of privacy, the gap between the public and the private, voyeurism, information sharing, marketing and so on. But also from reading this, and other articles I get the sense that facebook has become a neccesity and a must have in contemporary society, and these issues are something that 'we' as users have to deal with in order to keep up with new forms of technology.