Google Plus and Topic versus Privacy

[del_chan]

So I'm exploring Google+. It's not revolutionary enough to vastly prefer it to any other short-form social media, but I know some people that think it's pretty awesome. If anyone wants to circle up, lemme know

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[skh]

On NPR recently I heard something about whether the internet was helping to expose people to more, different things they wouldn't normally seek or if it was making the population more segmented and therefor, increasing their differences. I don't think (as typical with NPR) that they came to any one conclusion. What are your thoughts?

[del_chan]

I seem to remember a TED video about something similar. While I've met a few people who seek out exposure to lifestyles that aren't their own as a practice, I think the great lot of us are hard-wired to be attracted to media and ideas that are familiar to us. So no, I don't think the internet's helping us seek harder, and there are barriers all around us, but all the tools are still there for the seekers. I think the danger comes when, like the TED speaker said, you have the illusion that you've seen everything and you don't realize how small your bubble has become