[nlperguiy]

Facebook is the ultimate individualism app.

Before, you had media that was consumed simultaneously by all members of the family or together with your friends. There were some, not that time consuming media sources targeting a certain age group.

Facebook targets all age groups and compartmentalizes everyone perfectly into their own echo chambers.

People consume stuff together less, compared to times when they consumed television or similar media.

Even families don't spend time together watching their favorite comedy shows or similar as much as they used to. Shows are all compartmentalized.

That's what targeted advertisement and machine learning do. Tweak for the best click through rate.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but there might be some effects of people consuming information mostly alone without any external input, other than their echo chamber. I've definitely felt this affect me.

[fullshark]

This seems more a symptom of individualized media devices (phones/computers/tablets) than facebook.

[mcny]

> This seems more a symptom of individualized media devices (phones/computers/tablets) than facebook.

I used to talk about something I have seen people call "ipodization" but people thought I was joking. I was more concerned with ipodization of water. People don't trust municipal water => people buy bottled water => municipal water gets bad.