From this class I learned the importance of maintaining privacy, and the Internet’s ability to trap me into a bubble of consistent information. Initially, the filter bubble sounded like it wasn’t so bad: essentially if I liked a post from my liberal friend and rarely checked the page of my conservative friend, then the computer is smart enough to get rid of that conservative friend from my feed, since I clearly do not care about what that person has to say. But what if I wanted to go outside my boundaries and expand my knowledge? The filter bubble makes it that much harder to find new information and opinions because the Internet is designed in a way that assumes what I would like to see and read. The fact that the Internet is capable of controlling what I view, and furthermore, that the Internet has constructed an idea about what I would like, or what I am like based on my Web surfing truly bothers me. On top of that, the consolidation of my likes, dislikes, the items i’ve shopped for have all resulted in the Internet, or larger corporations, trying to sell me things incessantly. Before deleting my cookies and browsing history, anytime I considered purchasing something from a website: airplane tickets, concert tickets, shoes etc…an advertisement for this item would show up on a different website completely unrelated to what I was on. The websites KNEW I never purchased this item, but they know that I have looked at it for an extended period of time, or have done research on the quality of it…so they push me to purchase it harder and harder by appearing on my screen.