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Burst the Filter Bubbles! - written by 20218 Choi Yun Seo

Be aware of the “friendly-looking” filter bubbles! What types of information are you getting? In a flood of information, do you think you are getting all the information you need? It's time that you reconsidered about the information you were consuming, because you might be missing some things that are important. Actually, those who thought about this before realized they were only getting limited amount of information, and were trapped in a cover called the filter bubbles. Filter bubble is an expression first introduced by Eli Pariser in 2011, in his book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You . It's a term coined to explain about the social issue that algorithms and recommendation engines on the Internet that are shielding people from reality. To put simply, it means that they are offering information only based on the user's interests. You might wonder why this is causing a bad effect since the Internet is noticing the users'