Polarization is not static; it moves along society's fabric.
Bubbles inside a shared space will grow & evolve until something breaks, and the bubbles become spaces of their own.
When new unarguable principles are found, new bubbles will be born. And we're back to square one.
twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1597223051904548870
It happened to other social networks (along different dimensions), FB being the oldest mainstream example.
For FB, it may have been users age (which then basically correlated with politics).
For Twitter, it's political views from the start.
Good? Bad?
Both I guess.
→Local net positive: people are gonna be happier to be in their tribe, feeling surrounded by peers only.
→ Global net negative: empathy loss from both sides, less understanding of different views, reasons, and lives.
So what?
So I have no idea what.
I think I'll just be happy to ask myself more questions about this for now, and most importantly I'll try to fight the urge of having answers for them (especially if quick, easy, absolute answers).
If you have thoughts on this, please share them.
I think it's an interesting and obscure topic, and we'd all benefit from being intentional about our choices, and trying to understand the whole thing.
Even if it's on idiotic stuff like what social you're on atm.