Filter Bubble: The Ted Talk

The filter bubble was designed to navigate our personal and recreational on how are using the web.

The Filter Bubble, by Eli Pariser, shed light on how the internet hides a lot of information from us. There is a database that collects all of your information based on what you click on and what you post online, from any device you may choose to use. The internet records this information and creates a profile of your interests, location, race, age and more. This profile that the internet created, determines what shows up on your computer screen which is referred to as the filter bubble. It determines the ads and websites you see while using the internet. Eli Pariser states, “More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click” (2). The central premise

A filter bubble is a personally tailored search that chooses which content will best interest the user, all other information that may not be of interest to the user may not be visible. This is happening on Yahoo News, Google, and even Facebook. In the future it will be very hard to find a website or search engine that does not hide or modify the page for its user. This modification we refer to as filter bubbles can have a very negative effect when it come to the censorship of its audience. Like mentioned in the Eli Pariser Ted talk, two searches on google on Egypt show two very different results. On showed tragedy of an Egypt attack and one suggested great luxury places to vacation to in Egypt. It is easy to see how this news coverage or lack

After watching the Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubble” he explains how we get trapped in a “filter bubble” but not getting exposed to the information that could widen our worldview. He also goes on to talk about how we are not in unity like we think because we live in our own personal bubbles through or on the internet, but we do not get to pick what all goes into our bubble. I agree with that but the people to blame is the ones who withholds the information we need to challenge us and the things that get edited out. Even though our bubbles consist of who we are and what we do, it’s not fair because we have no control over what gets put into our bubbles or what get left out. The ESPN article also ties in with the filter bubble as well.

As in the 1920s today we are setting a new course with the use of computers and the creation of the internet. Now we have reached to the point in which we can be connected not only with the majority of our fellow citizens but also with the entire world. Social networks have been created with the purpose to facilitate the interaction between our friends and family members as well as with many from other countries as well. It is a way not only to communicate, and learn from others, but also to do all kinds of business. We do not only have computers, we have smart phones as well, and many other devices which allow us to keep in touch with the rest of the

Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives--or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts--as the Internet does today.

People realized the dangerous of living in filter bubbles, so they want to test the effects that political polarization on facebook. Recently, A research asks ten voters to look at the opposite side of their opinion. They ask five liberals to look the “right wing” news resource and five conservatives to look the “left wing” news resource. The result of bursting those Facebook bubble and let ten voters touches the opposite view information is quilt interesting.

Reading texts, emails, tweets, articles, and web browsing in general have us reading more today than at any time in our history. The question is if reading all of these short snippets of information is nearly as valuable to us as reading whole texts was to us in the past.

To find information on the controversial topic, a survey was mailed in April 2000 to a randomly selected sample of participants from schools and public libraries that had used web filters in the past. The purpose of the survey was to find out how effective web filters are at doing their job(Curry). The results of the survey provided staggering evidence against the use web filters. Almost 50% (43%) of the respondents voted that they felt somewhat dissatisfied or not at all satisfied with the ability of the web filters to block potentially harmful sites. This shows that large holes inhabitat the web filters and their ability to remove all the possible negativity from the internet happens to remain very

This is the search box that is displayed in Google or Firefox when we wish to look up information about a particular topic of interest. Whenever we type a word or a topic of interest into the search box section indicated by the word “Search”, we transmit information about ourselves and our interest at the execution of that search. Advertisers see that search engine box request and gather information about our interest in an effort to contact us relating to that topic of interest. As a result of the search, they then solicit us to provide their services (Poritz, 2007). Information is being transmitted every time we type our subject of interest in the search engine box. The search engine creates a log file of our interest and advertisers obtain information about us from that particular search engine provider. It is not likely that the gathering of PII will cease in the near future. Search engines will continue to log and create files for usage by companies relating to our interest. Knowledge of how PII is transmitted and what we can do to minimize our contribution when surfing the web, will assure that information about us is distributed in a matter that is acceptable (Poritz, 2007). In general, items such as social security numbers, driver license numbers, birth records, race, and sex are all considered sensitive PII (Homeland Security, 2011).

Firms like Google and Facebook have created profound shifts in the way firms advertise and individuals and organizations communicate. New technologies have fueled globalization, redefined our concepts of software and computing, crushed costs, fueled data-driven decision making, and raised privacy and security concerns.

The Internet is one of the most important aspects of life in the 21st century. The technological advances in the world today have made the internet an essential part. The uses of the internet include communication, a source of information, and marketing in businesses among others. It is estimated that more than 47% of the world populace have access to the internet and uses it for varied purposes ("World Internet Users Statistics and 2017 World Population Stats," n.d.). However, despite the popularity, very few people understand the functioning of the internet when they are browsing since they usually consider them as technical stuff. To appreciate the operation of the internet, there are several aspects that a person must understand various aspects such as the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and its parameters like cookies. More so, their importance should be understood especially for analysts.

It is hard to communicate with people in alternate filter bubbles without losing friends. In order to avoid this problem, we must first understand the problem. Being in a filter bubble means that you surround yourself with people or things that agree with your personal likes and dislikes. When friends arrive to a disagreement, it can be very hard not to take things personal. It is important to be very mindful of what we say to our friends because they hold significant roles in our daily life. It is important to create a list of steps to follow when you are communicating with those friends who are in alternate filter bubbles. I decided to use these steps because a friendship is far more important than one person being right or wrong. Today,

There are many pros and cons of censorship some of them are very bad in the long run. Some examples are that sex-related topics being censored can be