Somehow, Bernie Sanders' campaign has infiltrated my Facebook feed. I keep getting these messages. Some are benign, walking the reader through voter registration questions - because apparently that's how the "revolution" happens.
But as they increasingly accused Clinton of criminality and being a new Hitler, I finally did something I NEVER do: block content on my Facebook feed.
I have remained "friends" with people for years who all I do with them is argue on Facebook. But these people aren't my friends, and I don't know why I have to scroll past their stuff. So I reported them as spam and blocked people like "Eric." Now I'm getting the same messages from "Melanie." So, I block her, too.
At this point, I feel more antagonized than interested. I realize that this is simply reinforcing a previously held position, but isn't that the great peril of the Internet? Doesn't this account for our extreme polarization?
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