First off let me start by saying Eli Pariser did a marvelous job with his presentation about “filter bubbles”. After reading the 10 Ways to Pop Your Filter Bubble, I think they would be very useful when trying to find searches with the best results. Things like burning my cookies and clearing my web history are good tools in popping the filter bubbles. And ironically I usually do these things when I use my laptop it seems to make things run smoother, and I had no clue before today that doing this was making my searches more direct and more general. Other suggestions like making my Facebook private, hiding my birthday, turning off targeted ads, and going into site as ‘anonymous’ are other suggestions that the site gave that I never really did before. I can see what it means by staying anonymous on sites to make searches more broad but I do not quite agree with the other suggestions like hiding my birthday, and making my profile private on Facebook. I don’t see how that would affect my searches but that is what it says to do so it is probably best. But being that I already clear my web history and burn my cookies when surfing the web those are suggestions I already do. But as for the other ones maybe turning off targeted ads and going into sites as anonymous is something that I may try in the future. I am not so sure on making my Facebook, and birthday private just yet!
I did use some of the suggestions that were suggested to me. At first I did not care, but then I thought about how people are being ripped off and identity theft and I thought that maybe I should hide some of my personal information. You never know who is out there and who is watching.
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