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There’s a big difference between “you are what you click” and “you are what you share.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":33,"quote_text":34,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":35,"source":36,"quote_tag":37,"commentary":9},3001673,"Try to throw a rock through a virtual storefront, and you just get an error.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":39,"quote_text":40,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":41,"source":42,"quote_tag":43,"commentary":9},3001668,"The most serious political problem posed by filter bubbles is that they make it increasingly difficult to have a public argument.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":45,"quote_text":46,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":47,"source":48,"quote_tag":49,"commentary":9},3001665,"But what’s troubling about this shift toward personalization is that it’s largely invisible to users and, as a result, out of our control. We are not even aware that we’re seeing increasingly divergent images of the Internet. The Internet may know who we are, but we don’t know who it thinks we are or how it’s using that information. Technology designed to give us more control over our lives is actually taking control away.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":51,"quote_text":52,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":53,"source":54,"quote_tag":55,"commentary":9},3001658,"Partisans are more likely to consume news sources that confirm their ideological beliefs. People with more education are more likely to follow political news. Therefore, people with more education can actually become mis-educated.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":57,"quote_text":58,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":59,"source":60,"quote_tag":61,"commentary":9},3001656,"Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating “compulsive media” to get you to click things more.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":63,"quote_text":64,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":65,"source":66,"quote_tag":67,"commentary":9},3001652,"Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different environments and modalities – is one of human cognition’s most astonishing traits. Artificial intelligence has yet to come anywhere close.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":69,"quote_text":70,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":71,"source":72,"quote_tag":73,"commentary":9},3001647,"There’s the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they’re giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That’s something that probably will need government action.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":75,"quote_text":76,"author_id":5,"source_id":28,"has_image":21,"author":77,"source":78,"quote_tag":79,"commentary":80},3001641,"Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another’s point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nEli Pariser, the co-founder and former executive director of MoveOn.org, wrote this quote in his 2011 book \"The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You.\" At the time, Pariser was sounding the alarm about the ways in which online algorithms were fragmenting our digital experiences, creating personalized \"bubbles\" that reinforced our existing views and insulated us from opposing perspectives. This was a pressing concern for Pariser, who had dedicated his career to harnessing the power of the internet to mobilize social change.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nWhat's often overlooked in Pariser's warning is the tension between the need for individual perspective and the need for collective understanding. On one hand, democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, which implies a degree of empathy and perspective-taking. On the other hand, the very notion of a \"bubble\" suggests that our individual experiences are, in fact, isolated and disconnected from those of others. Pariser's quote highlights the paradox that, in order to engage with others and build a shared understanding, we must first be willing to confront and challenge our own perspectives.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset in your own life, make a conscious effort to seek out information and experiences that challenge your existing views. This might mean actively seeking out opposing viewpoints on social media, engaging in discussions with people from different backgrounds and perspectives, or seeking out books and articles that challenge your assumptions. By doing so, you can begin to break down the \"bubbles\" that insulate us from one another and cultivate a more nuanced, empathetic understanding of the world around us.",{"currentPage":82,"totalPages":83,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":84},1,8,10]