‘Do You Operate in a Social Media Bubble? 3 Questions to Ask’ – CMI
Jonathan Crossfield says, “In Lewis Carroll’s fantastical tale Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, the eponymous heroine discovers a very different world on the other side of a mirror, occupied by people and creatures she never imagined could exist.
Yet, were we to look into the same looking glass, we would see ourselves reflected. Any different realities, ideas, and viewpoints of another world would remain out of view.
Welcome to the world of social media filter bubbles — where what you see is very definitely NOT what you get.
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”
I can’t trust my social media feeds anymore. My various streams, timelines, and news feeds made it easy to believe it was impossible that the United Kingdom would vote to leave the European Union; that Australia would re-elect the Liberal government; and that Donald Trump would become the Republican nominee”.
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