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I’m in the US, and old enough to remember the time before the Internet, and that’s what I remember. You had three or so TV networks and a handful of national ma

I’m in the US, and old enough to remember the time before the Internet, and that’s what I remember. You had three or so TV networks and a handful of national magazines and newspapers. Big tech isn’t really any different from the media zeitgeist I grew up with. It’s just the last 20 years or so of everybody having a megaphone that is outside the norm.

Zambyte 6y ago
It is very different. Everyone saw the same or very similar information on the TV. People watching the same channels would see the exact same thing. With social media, your feed is perfectly catered to you as an individual, by using as much data on you as they can get their hands on, and a nearly endless supply of content from the "megaphones" of other users. Even if you have many of the same friends as someone, and politically align with them, you probably would find scrolling through their feed to be less interesting than scrolling through your own.