a filter bubble is something you have no control over. it is something auto generated by the search programs you use. Google, bing, yahoo, ask, any search engine or website you use creates a filter bubble for you, whether you want it or not. it gives you results based on what you have previously searched for. it filters your results, even if you do not want them to be filtered. I feel that is not a good thing to have. if i am working on a paper, i want all the results, not just the ones a complex algorithm has created for me. if the stuff i have previously searched is causing the algorithm to filter out certain results for a topic i am currently researching, that is completely useless to me, and may be giving me biased information depending on what view of a topic i have searched before. i personally feel our results should not be filtered as they are, it is almost in some way a sort of censorship, which should not occur without our permission. It could be seen as a violation of our first amendment rights because something is filtering our information without our permission. Filter bubbles could be a good thing, but only if you had the option to use it or not.
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The whole filter bubble things is new to me and now that I know about it I would pefer to have a choice if I wanted filter bubbles for certain sites. There is probably information that I would like to see all the time that I can't because an agorithm decided for me that I didn't want to see it. I'ts like the auto-speller, sometimes I like to use it and sometimes I don't.
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