Exposing Facebook's Shadow Echo-chamber creation of particular groups of people and friends

How do we navigate background generated echo-chambers made courtesy of this media platform?

Another tool of censorship of Facebook - besides controlling the algorithm value for certain posts with certain political content - amongst other things! Is the segregation of groups or individual echo-chambers within friends groups. The assumption that you see on your feed all the latest posts of all of your friends is false.

You only see a very small proportion as has been decided for you - without your explicit consent.

It is within facebook's interest to create a 'vanilla' platform that feels safe for everyone. The idea being that the world is chaotic and full of disorder and people need to be made to feel that social media is a safe place that protects them from that - thereby much more willing to divulge their personal information and trust the medium and use it as a tool for social cohesion and community.

I first noticed this automatic echo-chamber tendency when I looked over a feed and noticed that facebook was presenting me with the exact same posts from the same people from looking at it once then looking at it after a few hours.

I thought, well that's a bit strange, surely of the currently 400 or so friends I apparently have there is a bit more activity than just these few people that get represented to me over and over again and ONLY these people.

I then went searching and found that many of the other friends in my list did indeed post - just I don't get to see what it is they have posted unless I look them up specifically.

Consider that the same thing is also done to you - your posts are only shown to a select few that facebook has decided is your people - which doesn't let you know it is doing it.

It is a psychological game. Many will look and consider that it doesn't really matter or that 'it is for the best'.

This is largescale manipulation of perception and it is not ok - considering that a lot of people do not indeed watch the news - they look at social media.

You didn't pay for this service - it is offered to you and you accept the terms on usage.

In this way, a shadow social credit system is created whereby you are only allowed as much exposure as you are given - and certain topics get very little exposure or only to your select echo chamber as decided by your activity and networks which are logged by facebook - this is censorship.

To trust that such a platform is censoring you in your best interests is to contribute to a system that disregards individual rights and experience. It places the presupposed group perspective on everyone with or without the consent of the individual.

Anyone with a little bit of experience in politics, human psychology or have read a bit about neurology will understand immediately the boiling pot of danger we are in by continueing to trust such sources as a societal cohesive mechanism.

How do we then negotiate this effectively? Before, I stated I will continue to use facebook as long as it seems useful. But with as much manipulation of content as there is - I feel that by participating I am actually supporting such stiflement of individual rights.

Is it time to leave again? Become real again? Engage with real people in the real world and find others that do the same? Moving on and into a future without fear of what is around the corner - because to live anything less than my authentic self - is not a life worth living.

The apparent empowerment through public interaction that this platform offers is overshadowed by its mechanisms of censorship and data collection running in the background. The current paradigm of social media is geared towards creating a particular kind of society and through filtering information in certain ways and repeating certain viewpoints more often is having a direct effect on conditioning within the group mind that affects perception and therefore interaction in the real world. Regardless of whether or not I quit and delete everything again - the effects of this machine within society will still be felt - all the people on here have created a cohesion and trust in this online world which continues to solidify a shared global political system that most did not consent to be conditioned with. A world in which individuals do not have the capacity for rational deduction outside of the areas that have been designated by their online environment to have an opinion or to express views.

What are the options? What is an effective way of being in this society that still has an effect? Can we have an effect? Is it too far gone? Should we just focus on ourselves and be done with it?

The path to healing is pointing out abuse with a big finger and saying, 'HERE IT IS'. I state this from a position from empowerment and not victimhood. I encourage dialogue on the subject and am ready to look for ways of seeing things that are outside my bias - if we engage in dialogue with a shared aim and no attachment to the outcome - we can engage in an inquiry of the mind. Allowing the flow to lead where it may and together we come to truth.