The first video talks about the internet and how it shows us "what we want to see", rather than "what we need to see". Pariser discussed how on the internet, the filter bubbles edit things out and we do not notice them. They may add things to our search engines that are totally different from what we were searching for. He mentioned how a balanced flow of information would be more convenient rather than whats occurring presently. Overall, this video was sending a message of how the internet is enforcing filter bubbles and they are producing outcomes that were not asked for. In contrast, the article on High Bandwidth Buddies claims that if people always talked to people who are similar to them, then they would not hear anything surprising or interesting. Instead, it would be the same old ordinary things especially because the people you associate are usually similar to you, meaning you might think more in common. Thompson says that a little diversification would do everyone good because it will bring something new and unseen to everyone. That is an interesting perspective because do we really want to be surrounded by common ground all the time? Or would it be more interesting to learn new things, meet new people who think differently from the way we do.
I think this is really important for us to learn about. This make me think that we are affected by the internet a lot, especially our thoughts. Because we use internet so often today and we learn and obtain so much thing from the internet, our mind is full of the idea from the internet so that we are lack of creativities. Just like what you say, I think we should look for vary things on the internet and should not be control by the internet.
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