Life Casting

Have you heard about "Lifecasting"? This is a new concept on the web that is catching on and will probably become far more popular in the immediate future. Basically, lifecasting is putting a camera in front of oneself 24 hours a day and offering the feed to people who log on to a web site to look. It is voyeurism at the extreme, I guess. Watchers can forget their dull lives by seeing others every moments.
A person would have to be very open....no completely uninhibited and egotistical to allow that kind of intrusion on his or her life. But the first person to do this, a fellow named Justin Kane, has become a celebrity for it. Again, this age of "being famous for doing nothing" gets another way to do it. Skip idiot TV shows like "Idol" and "Survivor", if you want to be famous just set up cameras to spy on you 24 hours a day (but please duck when you are on the toilet, that I don't want to see).
So the internet world is going from blogging inanities to showing them live. Along with the many dull and unimportant moments of a life those lifecasting cameras are bound to create an archive of our more important and meaningful moments. But is that a good thing? Is it better to live a moment of joy or to live and record it?
I am not sure, but I suspect it is a bad idea to keep a video record of one's entire life experiences, and then to look at them at will. It may nullify or change our memory, or more specifically to erase the power of memory to keep those important moments special. Take for example a person's first kiss. That is a magical memory for many people. Is putting it on film and watching it many years later going to make it seem less so? We tend to idealize such moments and make them better with the passing of time. The memory accommodates us by letting us imagine such moments are better than the film would show them to be. This is good for "emotional health", in that having special moments idealized makes us feel better about our lives. But if we put such things on tape those moments may become just a realistic view rather than the idealized highlight we imagine in our memory. In my perspective, that is not the way to live my life.
Sometimes the camera should be off. No, most of the time it should be off. Only the most shallow and egotistical of us (the Paris Hilton's and Donald Trump's of the world) need to be the star of every moment of their lives. Besides! I am not going to let anyone see me poo! Are you keeping a record of this?????