In our society, from Eli Pariser's point of view, this is extremely harmful to people who use the Internet. From time to time, there will be from forms of info for different people on the same subject, but this is set to be, which means there will hardly be any counter-argument presented. This action means that people are constantly under the processed depiction of favors, this personalized fed information, is very hard for people to consume something other than tailored information. Moreover, the internet is constantly gathering people's information, our interests, people's comments, our opinions and from Google to Facebook, everyone is doing this to each other. On the other hand, St Thompson suggests that in this news that homophily has many benefits to people, due to the consistency and familiarity, people would get more information they really be interested in, and also this is the best way they would like their information be framed. In the end, the blockage of set preferences due to personal tendency can be result in a new and productive way to receive information because it can bring more convenient in people's future life.
I agree with your idea and it reflect how our society is. I like it!
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