A super liberal FB friend posted something to the effect: “Unfriended another COVID death denier and deleted their posts. Try me.”
I responded saying:
You and I disagree politically, and probably on a lot of other issues, but I would never unfriend you or anyone because of a disagreement. I can’t stress enough that you need a dissenting view. You have to have your views challenged, as a sanity check, by the world. We are dangerously close to getting trapped in a social media/internet bubble where we only hear what we want to hear. Your post is the internet equivalent of book burning.
This was a few hours ago...just logged on to FB...UNFRIENDED, hahahaha.
Yeah, it’s horrible. It gives you a false sense of relationship with people. It’s so empty.
The worst thing about it is that it lets people create their own world/echo chamber and they are reaffirmed without challenge from anyone. It creates a significant psychological disparity between the real world and their social media one.
A world of monologues. Everyone becomes a legend in their own mind.