How Do You Feel that You've Been Locked in a 'Filter Bubble'?
@mythociate (21428)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 31, 2011 5:54pm CST
At a recent 'TED Talks' (Search the Web for it, you'll see 
), the speaker discussed 'filter bubbles'---the Internet's development of 'universes of web-content based solely on what our habits seem to demand rather than -on the full-range of content-types we come to the Internet for'
--(like he said, it used to be that what we saw was filtered by the broadcast-producers, by the editors, by the FCC; and we came to the Internet to get away from those filters ... but it seems the editorial-filters are being replaced by algorithmic-filters)--
for example, he talked about how--though he's a liberal and spends most of his time reading liberal web-content--he also has conservative friends on Facebook. However, lately he's noticed that his liberal friends' content is filtered-out of his FB News-Feed.
I've seem a sort of a 'filter' around here: though I try-and-try to tell you exactly what "value" is (in the hours you spend helping your friends live carefree lives), I keep seeing-and-seeing (mostly in myLot-ads on my homepage here) ad-after-ad touting that your time is only valuable if you let the advertisers assign some numerical value to it.
I feel that these ads shut you inside a bubble where all your value is limited to the numbers of things you control rather than -to the infinity of uncontrollable things you influence.
Do you see that? What other 'filter bubbles' do you see others (and perhaps yourself) becoming enclosed inside?
), the speaker discussed 'filter bubbles'---the Internet's development of 'universes of web-content based solely on what our habits seem to demand rather than -on the full-range of content-types we come to the Internet for'
--(like he said, it used to be that what we saw was filtered by the broadcast-producers, by the editors, by the FCC; and we came to the Internet to get away from those filters ... but it seems the editorial-filters are being replaced by algorithmic-filters)--
for example, he talked about how--though he's a liberal and spends most of his time reading liberal web-content--he also has conservative friends on Facebook. However, lately he's noticed that his liberal friends' content is filtered-out of his FB News-Feed.
I've seem a sort of a 'filter' around here: though I try-and-try to tell you exactly what "value" is (in the hours you spend helping your friends live carefree lives), I keep seeing-and-seeing (mostly in myLot-ads on my homepage here) ad-after-ad touting that your time is only valuable if you let the advertisers assign some numerical value to it.
I feel that these ads shut you inside a bubble where all your value is limited to the numbers of things you control rather than -to the infinity of uncontrollable things you influence.
Do you see that? What other 'filter bubbles' do you see others (and perhaps yourself) becoming enclosed inside?No responses
