[mikesabat]

> Is the world segregating such that there are fewer shared activities in a community to talk about?

Yes very much so. I'll notice it mostly on google news. For many things I search for, Google News starts to show me articles on that topic. If I look up an event, restaurant or movie the topic then becomes a regular topic in my Google News page. It makes the topic feel bigger than it is, and of course, crowds out other topics so that I'm not hearing about them.

[zhivota]

This is a good articulation of something I've noticed more and more recently with Google News. I used to feel like I was getting a broad overview of the news of the day by browsing it... Increasingly it feels like a filter bubble constructed just for me, which is unsettling and not that useful to me. I suppose it's time to seek out other sources of news aggregation.