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i never heard anyone using Facebook as news source Well, that's one hell of a bubble you're living in.

by renaudg 10y ago

herbst 10y ago
I am sorry if this does not fit with your world view. In my environment facebook is some social media platform, with a few uplifting news but mostly irrelevant personal stuff. As anyone i am "friends" with way to many people without a specific genre, so i dont think my feed is special in that regard. There is barely political or relevant stuff on my feed, and as said i never heard anyone say "did you read _that_ on facebook?" when talking about something in the news. If that helps you: my circle is mostly from Austria and Switzerland
- renaudg 10y ago
  It's definitely not just my world view. According to some studies, 62% of Americans are said to use FB as their primary news source (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/62-people-now-use-facebook-primary-news-source-why-we-conner-galway https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/62-people-now-use-facebook-pr...) So it's not unreasonable to say you're inside a really special bubble, if you've never heard anyone using Facebook as a news source.
  - herbst 10y ago
    As mention, but i am glad to do it again. I AM NOT AMERICAN Edit:// To further clearify: Nether are any of my facebook friends, nether have i ever been there or plan to. I have no relation with the U.S. i was just making the point that Facebook might simply is not the right place to find information.
    - renaudg 10y ago
      I'm not American either. I'm French, living in the UK, and the figures are probably not very different here.
      - herbst 10y ago
        Honestly, i can imagine the UK beeing not much different. Around here Facebook lost its appeal some time ago and mutated to a semi relevant social network. People (especially teens) use a lot Whatsapp & Snapchat now. We mostly stopped having requests for facebook marketing campaigns as well since a few years. And businesses slowly stopped to maintain their Facebook sites. Please dont project your english environment into my german bubble. Thanks
- vsgxvhdxh 10y ago
  When you see a political post do you tend to interact with it? Do you interact more with personal uplifting stories? Your feed tends to contain the sort of things you interact with to the exclusion of the sort of things you don't. You are probably in a Facebook bubble without even realising it...
  - herbst 10y ago
    No. I dont do anything on facebook at all, i just happen to scroll through my feed every other week when i just went online to contact one of the few people that i cant reach otherwise. I really see where you are going, and i see that we all are in our personal Facebook bubble. But my point stands that Facebook simply does not have the same relevance at here that it seems to have in the U.S. People here read news, many even young, read actual newspapers. There is not so much place for facebook in a system that already works. And before someone asks, yes our newspapers are heavily favoring too. But thats not the point.
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    - renaudg 10y ago
      I dont do anything on facebook at all, i just happen to scroll through my feed every other week when i just went online to contact one of the few people that i cant reach otherwise. Well there you go again: at last count 1.26 billion people check Facebook daily, and they're not all American. The figures in German speaking countries are huge too, your personal usage is simply not very representative of most people's.

i never heard anyone using Facebook as news source Well, that's one hell of a bubble you're living in.

by renaudg 10y ago

i never heard anyone using Facebook as news source Well, that's one hell of a bubble you're living in.

I am sorry if this does not fit with your world view. In my environment facebook is some social media platform, with a few uplifting news but mostly irrelevant personal stuff. As anyone i am "friends" with way to many people without a specific genre, so i dont think my feed is special in that regard. There is barely political or relevant stuff on my feed, and as said i never heard anyone say "did you read _that_ on facebook?" when talking about something in the news. If that helps you: my circle is mostly from Austria and Switzerland

renaudg 10y ago
It's definitely not just my world view. According to some studies, 62% of Americans are said to use FB as their primary news source (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/62-people-now-use-facebook-primary-news-source-why-we-conner-galway https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/62-people-now-use-facebook-pr...) So it's not unreasonable to say you're inside a really special bubble, if you've never heard anyone using Facebook as a news source.
- herbst 10y ago
  As mention, but i am glad to do it again. I AM NOT AMERICAN Edit:// To further clearify: Nether are any of my facebook friends, nether have i ever been there or plan to. I have no relation with the U.S. i was just making the point that Facebook might simply is not the right place to find information.
  - renaudg 10y ago
    I'm not American either. I'm French, living in the UK, and the figures are probably not very different here.
    - herbst 10y ago
      Honestly, i can imagine the UK beeing not much different. Around here Facebook lost its appeal some time ago and mutated to a semi relevant social network. People (especially teens) use a lot Whatsapp & Snapchat now. We mostly stopped having requests for facebook marketing campaigns as well since a few years. And businesses slowly stopped to maintain their Facebook sites. Please dont project your english environment into my german bubble. Thanks
vsgxvhdxh 10y ago
When you see a political post do you tend to interact with it? Do you interact more with personal uplifting stories? Your feed tends to contain the sort of things you interact with to the exclusion of the sort of things you don't. You are probably in a Facebook bubble without even realising it...
- herbst 10y ago
  No. I dont do anything on facebook at all, i just happen to scroll through my feed every other week when i just went online to contact one of the few people that i cant reach otherwise. I really see where you are going, and i see that we all are in our personal Facebook bubble. But my point stands that Facebook simply does not have the same relevance at here that it seems to have in the U.S. People here read news, many even young, read actual newspapers. There is not so much place for facebook in a system that already works. And before someone asks, yes our newspapers are heavily favoring too. But thats not the point.
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  - renaudg 10y ago
    I dont do anything on facebook at all, i just happen to scroll through my feed every other week when i just went online to contact one of the few people that i cant reach otherwise. Well there you go again: at last count 1.26 billion people check Facebook daily, and they're not all American. The figures in German speaking countries are huge too, your personal usage is simply not very representative of most people's.