Digital Enclaving / Echo Chambers
Online groups sort by belief and reinforce it; inside, extreme positions feel normal, dissent is absent, and consensus becomes reality. Personal choices drive the sorting at least as much as algorithms do.
An everyday example
A forum where every member is certain a product is a scam, or a miracle, and no one has used it.
What it can cost you
Mistaking an enclave's consensus for the world's; radicalisation of beliefs about products, people and risks.
Warning signs
- Everyone in my feed agrees.
- People outside seem crazy to me.
One thing to do
Maintain deliberate contact with communities that disagree; check how a belief looks outside the group before acting on it.
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