Take a deep breath and give it a thought: Do you really want to step out of your filter bubble? Do you really want your views and opinions to be challenged? Have you heard about confirmation bias? Are you tolerant to other people’s views? One way to check this is to ask yourself: Do I often end up in discussions where I try to convince others to believe what I believe? Then maybe you should reconsider your need to step out of your filter bubble. But why not decide for myself what I want to see? Wouldn’t that be more fun? So why not try and burst your filter bubble? Here is my recipe as a researcher. I am not against big companies earning money –as long as they pay their taxes. Algorithm monsters developed by big companies select the information we are allowed to see. We don’t really see the internet anymore. Most of us, when we sit down with our smartphones or tablets –which we do many hours each day –go directly to the apps or web pages set up by big companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple etc. At least for those of us who live in our filter bubbles. Now it has become one of the most corporation-conformist places on earth. The internet was supposed to be liberating, globalizing, and democratizing. Here are some tips from my side on how I am always trying to burst my filter bubble. Do you live in a filter bubble? Do you see more Trump-related news every time you click on Trump-related news? If the answer is yes then you probably do live in a filter bubble, like most of us using the internet.
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