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Social media, especially Facebook, tries very hard to ensure that we never encounter a thought or opinion we consider surprising, or in any way contrary to our
by grabcocque 9y ago
Social media, especially Facebook, tries very hard to ensure that we never encounter a thought or opinion we consider surprising, or in any way contrary to our biases and prejudices.
Essentially we're all locked in ever shrinking echo chambers, reinforcing our sense of moral correctness by ensuring we never encounter any challenge to our beliefs no matter how tiny and harmless.
That CANNOT be healthy.
- throw2016 9y agoThat only holds if facebook is the only website on the Internet. There is a whole Internet out there and then the real world.
- zdkl 9y agoYou seem to ignore the tactics facebook is known to deploy to ensure usres maximise time spent on their platform.
- pjc50 9y agoI see it the other way round on Twitter; it's hard to go a day without seeing something offensive or annoying, even if it's just somebody retweeting the latest Trump outrage to complain about it. If you step on a controversial subject and/or present as a woman you can get aggro in your mentions up to and including death threats. I see contrary opinions all the time. What I rarely see is well thought out contrary opinions presented as the conclusion of reasoning from a set of reasonable looking premises.
- belorn 9y agoEcho chambers allow two form of messages. Messages to agree with, and messages to raise outrage (carrot and stick). Well thought out contrary opinions belongs to neither so the echo chambers blocks that from view.