Filter Bubbles

Filter bubbles can be good and bad at the same time. The good thing about filter bubbles is that it is basically catered to what us as an individual research about or look up. The bad thing about filter bubbles is that we don’t even choose our filter bubbles. Eli Pariser said that search engines like Google and Yahoo and even Netflix and Facebook do the filters for us as individuals. I think it is horrible that we don’t even get a say on what we would want to filter our search on. Some people probably would not want to have filter bubbles, but because people do not know about it, they cannot say anything about it. I think just the simple research that Pariser did as far as have some friends look for a specific topic, which was Egypt. The fact that two of his friends had different results is not cool at all. I think it is crazy that this is actually happening and we do not have a say in what gets filters for us. When trying to do research for any type of topic, even if a person is just looking for some simple quick information, they will not get all the information. The filter bubbles stop people from getting all the possible information they could obtain for that specific topic. With academic research especially, we as students or individuals, are researching to get all types of information for that topic, but if there are filter bubbles, we can’t get all the information which could make a difference for a grade of a B to an A, or just well-rounded knowledge on that specific topic. I think the page that Ms. Pashia had on this assignment is a good way to get rid of the filter bubbles and it turns out that I have already been eliminating filter bubbles because I randomly clear out my history and delete cookies and do some of the other things that are on the site. I would definitely suggest that people should do this in order to eliminate these filter bubbles.