Thursday, January 30, 2014
Social Media creates polarity
Facebook is about to release an app called Paper that ties a user's feed with actual news articles (see this article). This app will kick a few more fence-sitters off the fence. If a person does not have a strong opinion on a subject, with this app he or she will be exposed to articles that espouse the opinions of their friends. Thus, Paper will tend to polarize opinions on many issues. Whether or not people are kicked off the fence prematurely, or in the right direction is a different question. If people tend to drift towards the opinions of their friends, they may hold ideals they don't fully believe in.
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I am not sure this will polarize people's opinions. I do agree that it will help people develop their opinions better.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I don't see too many news related posts. Most of them are from older people. I think they would like seeing those types of articles. But me personally, I won't ever use it. Facebook is usually my escape from news!
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