Online Communities

This week, I interacted with two different online communities, Reddit and Facebook. I chose these two online communities because they are both communities I frequently use. What's interesting about both of them is that they both host a large variety of users that have the whole range of opinions. Using either of them should guarantee that you get the opinions from both ends of the spectrum. However, the problems with online communities is that people tend to develop hivemind, agree and only interacting with opinions they agree with. This happens on most online communities and is a very hard thing to avoid. 

On Reddit, I visited r/personalfinance. They were discussing whether or not cutting your Amazon Prime membership could bring down unnecessary spending. I agreed with the poster that it could because cutting the access to free and easy shipping would make people think twice before buying, and therefore, buy less of the unnecessary. 

The second site I visited was Facebook, and I commented on a post about on CNN Politics. The post was about Hillary Clinton claiming that the US does not "deserve" President Trump as its leader. However, I felt that the conversation shouldn't be focused on this aspect and said so.