Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought. | information analyst | Scoop.it

This is the most intereseting study I have seen this week.  It is old (January 2012), but it provides an interesting look at how we get our social news and gives surprising value to how Facebook actually extends our scope rather than adds to the echo chamber:
Key Take-away:
Because we have so many weak-tie connections on Facebook, we are exposed to more ideas.  These new ideas lead us to want to share our new insight.  Because Facebook makes it so easy, we are actually strengthening the communal scope of social news

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