It always feels like, someone is watching me....

These days there is never a shortage on conspiracy theories and alarmist statements. We live in a time where our government tracks where you go, via those red light runner cameras, by scanning your license plate every time you pass through an intersection. They monitor your calls, your Facebook, and any other social media that you use. Likewise employers are also tracking your social media. These things are honest to goodness facts, not alarmist statements.

However, people have taken those things and become paranoid. This is mostly centered around the new Xbox One's Kinect that it comes packaged with. Not to be fooled, the PS also has a similar feature called The Eye but is not packaged with their system. I used the word paranoid to describe how people are acting because... well, I'm not really sure what else you could call the things you can read across the internet in a host of comment sections about the Kinect watching everything you do.

I think my favorite paranoid statement so far has been that Microsoft will be watching you masturbate. That's your concern? To me that sounds like shame. If you can't masturbate with some confidence then maybe you should do it in the bathroom like the other 12 year old boys. But seriously, Do you really think that Microsoft has so much money that they can throw it away by watching everything that everyone does 24/7? Outside of the cost of equipment, software, and maintenance there would be the cost of the mass amount of employees they would have to have to sift through all that video.

Can you really picture Microsoft having the equivalent to NASA's mission control except instead of all those people looking into screens monitoring a space shuttle each person is instead watching someone masturbate in their living room. Is THIS what the internet really think is going on?

I would for once just like to hear one SOUND point of view as to why any company would do such a thing. What would they get out of it? What are they looking for? Are they going to start emailing you penis enhancement ads?

This isn't about Microsoft, at least not for me. This is just about people taking things too far. This is about people taking a simple tool to make their gaming experience better and going OMG they will watch me yank my chain in my living room. I don't understand how that even registers in someone's head. I have no more fear of Microsoft watching what's going on in my living room than I do that PS would do it with their Eye.

Gamers, can we just please stop acting like we're a bunch of paranoid crackheads who seem to believe they heard something and it must be the cops at the door? No one is, nor does anyone want to, watch you masturbate.