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This might not be possible. People who actually swapped feeds with someone who had a different viewpoint decided they did "not like the news" because it didn't

• r00fus 10y ago
  The correct answer isn't to "switch feeds". It's to just turn it off. I'm happier, more productive and a better dad when I'm not being a feed-junkie. Maybe I'm an outlier.
  • electic 10y ago
    Me too. I turned it off as well. However, like most, people want to log in and get their views validated. It makes them feel great, feel wanted, and belonging to something bigger. I am not sure Facebook wants this problem to go away.
    • empath75 10y ago
      There really are an amazing number of people who simply aren't interested in understanding the world as it is. I think a big part of it is fundamentally not understanding how the brain works, and that just because your brain presents a convincing reality to you, that it doesn't necessarily coincide with actual reality. People don't understand that intuition can lead you very, very far astray. So they're building up this concept of the world which seems solid and internally consistent to them, but it's built on sand. And they get annoyed when people start kicking at the sand. Because they're happy in the world that they built. When really what they should be doing is digging out the sand, looking for the bedrock underneath.
      • grzm 10y ago
        How far do you want to take Cartesian dualism? Who are these "other people"? :)
        • empath75 10y ago
          Oh I'm sure I have a lot of unexamined biases. I try to find them as much as I can though. I love to be challenged. Just not on Facebook.
  • Vivtek 10y ago
    If so, we're outliers together.
  • nogbit 10y ago
    Not an outlier at all. I have never used FB for anything really, just tried to promote a silly YT channel with my kids at one time. This site is starting to get bad as well though. I would love it to be only tech.
  • anigbrowl 10y ago
    Yes, but ignoring the news and political changes is kind of a luxury, it means your life is secure enough that you can afford not to pay much attention to any of that stuff because you feel confident it won't affect you personally.
    • makomk 10y ago
      Except that following the feed gives you terrifying news that may affect you personally and isn't true, because no-one dares question it and it spreads rapidly. For example, I happened to take a note of the two most retweeted claims of Trump-related hate crimes I saw right after the election so I could follow what happened with them later - both turned out to be fake.
    • r00fus 10y ago
      Are you sure this is the case? Is your livelihood or security really dependent on daily churn of news? Here's a thought: what if most news is misinformation?
      • anigbrowl 10y ago
        Yes, and yes. I already assume that to be the case.
    • jonknee 10y ago
      Having a Facebook news feed and following news/politics are two different things. OP can quit Facebook and still go read the Washington Post.
• noir_lord 10y ago
  That's an interesting question, the question then becomes do people who like A because it conforms to their worldview like A because they where fed A and B because they where fed B or to put it another way have their views been shifted over time by the news they consume. > People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things…well, new things aren’t what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don’t want to know that a man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds - Lord Vetinari (Terry Pratchett - The Truth).