The Myth of Social Media

Twitter unquestionably is not good for the blood pressure. I think it has many good things, actually. God, can you get worked up, can't you? Because it's an artificial forum in some respects. And then the second point was more about the systems themselves of social media. There is an illusion that we've gone into information silos and we're surrounded by people who agree with us - which isn't true. We see tremendous diversity of opinion on the internet far more than we would have done if we were just taking one newspaper or three channels on television. But we are seeing those rival views presented to us by people who agrees with us as examples of the wrong thing to think