Social media is anti-social. This statement is not intended to be funny or clever. It's a plain-spoken assessment of social media ecosystems in 2018. The medium entangles identity with ideas. As fact and fiction blur, the cognitive appeal of stereotyping overwhelms cognition.
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Identity conditions experiences; experiences condition expectations; expectations condition judgments of identity. Favorable judgments make it easy to accept ideas of those with the same identity. Unfavorable judgments make it difficult.
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The current environment bombards people with information -- just way too much of it. To make sense of it all, we're really prone to relying upon judgement of identity (stereotypes) to assess information.
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