Message from @yearspastmatter

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2019-01-20 19:23:39 UTC  

What is the meaningful difference between "bubble" and that buzzword salad he just posted

2019-01-20 19:23:59 UTC  

They both mean the same thing

2019-01-20 19:24:15 UTC  

well, not quite

2019-01-20 19:24:39 UTC  

bubble does not necessarily imply intent, while constructed echo chamber does

2019-01-20 19:24:53 UTC  

bubble: you hear nothing else. buzzword salad: you hear only things that confirm what you already believe. it's a nuanced difference

2019-01-20 19:25:05 UTC  

bubbles expand and form naturally due to a lack of competition. Talking in a bowling alley is a social bubble. What the social platforms did was exclude and filter the talk while bringing together like minded indivuals that then began to self confirm among each other in a way that would magnify the purpose of the social circle

2019-01-20 19:26:29 UTC  

OK well here's where we have an impass

2019-01-20 19:26:33 UTC  

whereas talking about bowling in a bowling alley is a natural social bubble, bringing together people that for a sole purpose then filtering it out to an extreme degree via block bots and friend circles (recommended via algarythyms) is not natural

2019-01-20 19:26:34 UTC  

echo chambers are intentional, just not by the users. social media pushes you content that you are likely to engage with - that leads to the echo chamber

2019-01-20 19:27:19 UTC  

and yes, facebook/twitter/etc made it all worse intentionally

2019-01-20 19:29:02 UTC  

@I AM ERROR not sure of that. I kind of think they did so intentionally (the users) but that the sheer scope and scale of the platforms they have and the power of the tools to form those echochambers has grown far beyond what the users could fathom

2019-01-20 19:29:32 UTC  

they knew they were making an echo chamber, just not how pure it would become

2019-01-20 19:30:20 UTC  

@Misomania mabye it'll grow to the point of either too big it'll fail. or the tiger will eat the riders?

2019-01-20 19:30:45 UTC  

@Misomania ie what they created will comeback and consume them

2019-01-20 19:31:34 UTC  

i don't think the users intentionally make their echo chambers (well... some most definitely are) they just don't engage people they don't like (and block others) which leads to it... but most don't make a conscious decision to form their own echo chamber

2019-01-20 19:31:57 UTC  

they join for the purpose of seeking like minded people though

2019-01-20 19:32:15 UTC  

which is natural, but that means we naturally seek to form echochambers

2019-01-20 19:32:33 UTC  

None of us can know with any certainty whether or not the echo chambers people build are deliberate or just out of convenience. We can speculate as to whether or not most people explicity choose to only hear voices of what they like and remove voices that they don't, or if it's just a matter of proximity that they only hear voices that they like.

Did you deliberatly choose your friends based on their politics? Most people don't. People just naturally associate with people they have common interests with, and that LEADS to an echo chamber. Most aren't intentionally constructed. Social media just exacerbates the problem that naturally occurs.

2019-01-20 19:32:59 UTC  

Anyway I've gtg but it was nice having this discussion @Misomania @I AM ERROR @yearspastmatter

2019-01-20 19:33:07 UTC  

@Misomania thus they drift by isolation and then see their masters or creaters as facists it be hilarious if they did that btw haha

2019-01-20 19:33:20 UTC  

same, have a good one dude

2019-01-20 19:35:47 UTC  

@Orteid same, going to take the dogs out though so I'm going to be busy...... they love playing in this snow

2019-01-20 19:37:05 UTC  

got like a foot or 2 of snow and they love playing in it

2019-01-20 19:38:52 UTC  

echo chambers are a side-effect of easy access to social circles

2019-01-20 19:39:07 UTC  

https://twitter.com/ItsReactor/status/1085978521225302016 Does anyone see the hypocrisy here in the screencap our Reactor shows?

2019-01-20 19:39:33 UTC  

what? friends of youtube getting benefits?

2019-01-20 19:39:51 UTC  

Totally not fair

2019-01-20 19:40:00 UTC  

welcome to reality

2019-01-20 19:40:05 UTC  

friends get benefits

2019-01-20 19:40:38 UTC  

also, does "wayne" have to deal with the police afterwards? i think not #doublestandards

2019-01-20 19:40:56 UTC  

It's nice to see he's pretty close to Tim

2019-01-20 19:41:01 UTC  

PA and NJ

2019-01-20 19:41:21 UTC  

Have they done collabs before?

2019-01-20 19:43:15 UTC  

Wayne? or Reactor?

2019-01-20 19:43:23 UTC  

Reactor and Tim

2019-01-20 19:43:32 UTC  

yeah

2019-01-20 19:43:35 UTC  

they've done collabs

2019-01-20 19:43:43 UTC  

they even sucked the same teets as children

2019-01-20 19:43:53 UTC  

😄 Oh come on

2019-01-20 19:43:56 UTC  

they're brothers

2019-01-20 19:44:01 UTC  

I know that