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I don't think Twitter and facebook have allowed people to communicate across social/educational/economical boundaries. Yes you do get an odd an interaction here
by redditmigrant 9y ago
I don't think Twitter and facebook have allowed people to communicate across social/educational/economical boundaries. Yes you do get an odd an interaction here and there, but by and large both these platforms have become giant echo chambers where you only hear echoes of voices and opinions like your own.
Honest question, do you think an average internet user, interacts with and actually enagages in an intellectually honest way with people outside their own educational/social strata on any sort of regular basis?
- workerIbe 9y agoMany interest type forums have off topic/political sections that are deeply polarized. At times this can bleed into other sections but for the most part everyone gets along on topics of the interest.
- chongli 9y agoYou can lump YouTube in there with the echo chamber accusations. At the borders of these networks there is a huge amount of debate going on. It's moving forward. People do get bored of the echo chamber though. It just takes a really long time because people let their identity get caught up in it (identity politics). To answer your question: yes. I think this goes on far more often than it ever did before the internet and these social networks came into being. A lot of it is invisible though, because online identities don't carry that info around.