In Eli Pariser’s book, The Filter Bubble, we learned about today’s internet uses along with technology and how they both work together to devour our personal information. He warns us about the Filter Bubble because it turns us as human beings into shallow people who do not go out of their informational zone. This means that people tend to collect the same data from the same exact sources each and every day of their lives. This approach basically ‘zombifies’ us because of the lack of outsourcing to different thoughts and ideas. It is not entirely our fault for being caught up in the Filter Bubble; it is the current innovations and technology outburst that draws us in because of the convenience that they provide.

After reading this interesting book, I have decided to at least try not to live inside of a Filter Bubble by maximizing my research base. This meaning that If I was looking into a specific headline or news story that I find interesting, I would take some time to find different perceptions of this story whether it be online news forums, blogs, articles, and/or word of mouth. I would use the same sources that I would usually go to along with other forms of information to get a greater overall idea about what was going on. Another resolution that I am trying to use pertains to one of the resolutions that Eli Pariser gave in his book. According to Pariser, we all need to stop getting pulled into the “Mouse Trap.” (Pariser, The Filter Bubble p.223) He says, “Most of us are pretty mouselike in our information habits” meaning that we tend to circle around the same information, mousetrap, because of our natural habit of redundancy.(p.223) I am trying to get out of the mouse trap by simply using my technology last when I need information. It is almost impossible to do anything without technology in today’s world but I decided to actually use newspapers and talk to people before picking up my phone and Googling the topic.

I tend to read the fine print more often now because of what we learned in class. There are companies that are out there that use are information as their products for sale in Business to Business (B2B) transactions, but they have to tell people that their information will be used for this purpose. Sometimes we do not even notice this because it would be shown in the agreement section of the subscription or in the page. These pages are usually long and filled with a lot of words and topics that an irrelevant to read thoroughly, so people tend to just check off the I agree button because of that. Now I am trying to find the parts in the agreement section about “Privacy” that state whether or not my information would be used for selling or distribution to other companies.