Do I think people can go too far and literally only surround themselves with “yes men” socially? Sure.
You left out the part where i said it happens. I know it’s definitely an issue, and unlike a social club that meets once a week or month, they are able to browse and post on it at-will 24/7 and rile each other up. There’s no denying this is an issue. But when people talk about “social media echo chambers” they are usually pointing to this idea, broadly speaking, that everyone should be reading 15 different sources they don’t agree with and regularly breaking bread with people they disagree with, which just doesn’t reflect any aspect of reality other then, say, the workplace or thanksgiving. And notice we have all sorts of rules and social standards that are unique to the workplace and lectures about “no politics at thanksgiving” as a result!
Like I said, I don’t want to get a beer with someone who browsed the_donald regularly. Yet they would say I’m living in an echo chamber for not wanting to be around their bile.
That wasn’t an attempt to be disingenuous. It was to mark a reference point in your text. You’re trying to extrapolate arguments where there may or may not be any. That’s no better than how reddit is.
If we’re going to take sloppy digs at people re: reddit then it behooves me to point out that you did a very-reddit thing by ignoring 90% of what I wrote.
You left out the part where i said it happens. I know it’s definitely an issue, and unlike a social club that meets once a week or month, they are able to browse and post on it at-will 24/7 and rile each other up. There’s no denying this is an issue. But when people talk about “social media echo chambers” they are usually pointing to this idea, broadly speaking, that everyone should be reading 15 different sources they don’t agree with and regularly breaking bread with people they disagree with, which just doesn’t reflect any aspect of reality other then, say, the workplace or thanksgiving. And notice we have all sorts of rules and social standards that are unique to the workplace and lectures about “no politics at thanksgiving” as a result!
Like I said, I don’t want to get a beer with someone who browsed the_donald regularly. Yet they would say I’m living in an echo chamber for not wanting to be around their bile.
That wasn’t an attempt to be disingenuous. It was to mark a reference point in your text. You’re trying to extrapolate arguments where there may or may not be any. That’s no better than how reddit is.
If we’re going to take sloppy digs at people re: reddit then it behooves me to point out that you did a very-reddit thing by ignoring 90% of what I wrote.