Echo Chamber vs Sounding Board.

[MotoSxorpio]

Echo Chamber vs Sounding Board

The following is a quote from a study polling (tracking keywords and resulting posts) 2 million twitter users (anonymously), both conservative and liberal, on subjects like "does HPV vaccine cause birth defects?" (There are no scientist that believes that it does...)

"Social media reinforces our beliefs to think they are ONLY BELIEFS, they are widely shared, making it feel IRRATIONAL TO COMPROMISE.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but NOT THEIR OWN FACTS."

Facts are facts. If there are no shared facts, no idea has a chance to be shared.

We create our own realities, by living in an ECHO CHAMBER. Human reaction to a conflicting idea results in the same physiological reaction we have to Fight or Flight. It is a natural reaction to become angered by someone's conflicting opinion. Interesting, isn't it? And there are those who want to get paid. For an opinion.

We could live the same realities, and our own, by committing to fact and allowing other ideas to influence our own realities, in so that our own reality can be expressed and related. There is no exchange of ideas without this process.

We blame Facebook, Google, Twitter, Youtube (Google) for keeping things from us, but it is in our need to personalize that we create our own ECHO CHAMBER. Studies show that algorithms account for only 1% of hidden content on the side of social media. That leaves 99% to our own need for personalization...customizing what we see.

Sounding Board. Where ideas can be exchanged, scrutinized, developed.

Fact is only fact when we know the majority or better believe them as well. Tell me, we don't create our own reality?