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Some variation of this topic comes up over and over again. I've seen people bitch about Brazilians on Orkut, Chinese on WoW, Blacks on MySpace/Twitter, Indians
by incision 13y ago
Some variation of this topic comes up over and over again.
I've seen people bitch about Brazilians on Orkut, Chinese on WoW, Blacks on MySpace/Twitter, Indians on Quora and Android users on Instagram.
For all its potential as a connector, the Internet is full of homogeneous echo chambers. There's some threshold for these places where integration suddenly becomes a "problem".
I've occasionally wondered if the future of recommendation engines are systems which feed us a steady stream of what we want to hear and filter out everything and everyone else.
- artificialidiot 13y agoI can't help myself but think it's the whole point of a recommendation engine.
- rayiner 13y ago> For all it's potential as a connector, the Internet is full of homogeneous echo chambers. That's the point of the internet. To be able to seek out more people who think like you and have the exact same interests so you don't have to deal so much with all the heterogenous people in the real world.
- lobotryas 13y agoThe future is now: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
- mrbuzer 13y agoMelting pot... fuck that noise.