> Facebook makes it incredibly easy to step outside our bubbles. pfft. only if you don't compare it to any other non-walled-garden online communities. it's pl

> Facebook makes it incredibly easy to step outside our bubbles. pfft. only if you don't compare it to any other non-walled-garden online communities. it's places like HN (and many similar tiny islands of interest), I come for the comp.science news, and because of that it does NOT actively select for other criteria (just inherent bias) and I meet people with wildly different views than my own, and I can even expect to have a decent dialogue. i don't even need to "like" their political values, but i can still upvote their tech expertise. [ edit: LOL, I hadn't read dang's announcement about HN's political detox week, which pretty much runs exactly counter to what I just said, haha :) though I welcome the experiment and appreciate the irony of circumstance :-) ] check out the "general discussion" subforum on any random webforum community on a topic that interests you. it's all already intersecting by default! and it's Facebook (Google too) taking a very active role crystallising the bubbles into walls. Don't just try to step outside your personal Facebook-bubble, for it's actively working against you. Step outside the big bubble of Facebook itself.