A twitter bubble sphere of self-delusion

Social media in all it varied forms both promotes connectedness and isolation. You can create your own little bubbles of contacts with people who think just as you do. Then you erroneously believe because you have so many hundreds of followers or read so many thousands of similar messages that your world view is shared by everyone in the known universe.

Not so much.

So I exhort you to vary your followers. Add people so you can widen your perspective. And this is especially true if you really don’t want to read or see the opinions they are expressing.

And made sure you have lots of different folks so you are not discriminating.

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About forstegrupp

Currently I am an English teacher at an independent school outside of Philadelphia. To arrive at this way point, I spent many years in graduate school researching, reading, learning, and studying and finally earned a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University. I specialized in medieval orality and literacy. My private interests include baking, knitting, spinning, and gardening.
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