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Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Feasting on information junk food

There’s so much blabbing about how Facebook and Google are stealing your information, that it’s easy to tune out. But pay attention to this TED video. Online activist Eli Pariser shows how online algorithms keep you in your own personal internet filter bubble, where only stories and news based on your own political views and interests appear.


3 Comments

  1. mattsui
    Posted Wednesday, 5 October 2011 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    Link doesn’t work.
    I watched this at http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
    Definately worth a look.

  2. Trent
    Posted Wednesday, 5 October 2011 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

    It’s also discussed in his book, The Filter Bubble. It’s worth a read.

    http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Filter-Bubble-Eli-Pariser/9780670920389

  3. by the sea
    Posted Thursday, 6 October 2011 at 5:45 pm | Permalink

    I asked my 23 year old university child, I asked how much for your facebook password. I would kill her on line life off, she told me it would be expensive, she still hasn’t told me how much. It is a very big ticket item I guessed.

    Then I asked myself why tell facebook the truth? birthday, sex, education. I change it every month or so. everybody who knows me knows the picture of a tree is not me and I am not 24years old etc..

    how much for one twenty something facebook, quite a lot it seems