Aeon: How baring and sharing online increases social conformity. January 09, 2018 by Garret Vreeland in Psychology, Internet, Social Media Foucault’s central claim is that such monitoring is worrisome, not just because of what corporations and states might do with our data, but because the act of watching is itself a devastating exercise of power. It has the capacity to influence behaviour and compel conformity and complicity, without our fully realising it.Abso-friggin'-lutely.