Additions to Filter Bubble

I tend to agree with the Wallstreet Journal article that these gadgets are powerful and can if we let them limit human choice.  I also really like his solution which is that we need to be careful about which type of products we endorse, so we don't limit choice.  I don't believe technology is bad.  that's why I haven't deleted my facebook or stopped using google, but we need to figure out a way to maintain privacy, because while I don't have anything to hide, I don't really want people/companies in my business.  While I don't believe the filter bubble poses a threat to the millennial generation, I'm scared what having these tools can do to the generation below us.  My 10 year old niece has a tablet and using google regularly.  She's 10, she has no idea what she's getting into, and no idea that google filters and personalizes.  That is how we can kill creativity.  Smart gadgets would feed into that.  Social media while it promotes the flow of ideas it makes them into a fad.  Everyone was all about Kony in 2012, but now no one even knows what happened to those kids.  The internet is causing a cycle of ideas and social media makes them popular and viral, so that everyone is experiencing them.  This is awesome, but at the same time it means that they have no lasting impression on anyone.  Further than that it will be on the millennial generation to explain to their kids that filtering happening and teach them how to seek out new ideas that will have a lasting impression, even if the internet is impeding them.  My 10 year old niece has absolutely no idea how to climb a tree.  This baffles me, because by the time I was 10 if it was climbable I knew how to climb it with just one look.  She is steps behind where I was.  It could just be because she isn't as athletic and while her dad is he isn't often home to teach her, and my sister is not athletic at all.  I think that it goes deeper than that.  It's that philosophy that she seems to have that, because it is hard means she can't and she isn't willing to try.  If this translates into things like research abilities or creativity or any of those things she is absolutely screwed.  I have always been a stubborn person, so maybe it was just me, but when I was little you couldn't tell me anything.  If I didn't discover it on my own then the information held no value for me (even if my mother ended up being right) what held value for me was that I had tried absolutely everything I could think of and it still didn't work, so therefore it must not be possible.  My niece doesn't have that.  If something is too difficult then she won't do it.  She gives into peer pressure easily.  She is type of kid that will be seriously affected by the wrong type of smart gadgets.  That is what scares me.  I have no idea how much or how little my sister knows or suspects about the internet and how many tabs it keeps on everyone.  I have no idea if she believes it's all sugar and spice and everything nice, and that is where Caroline gets it from, or if maybe Caroline is still a tad too young to have this conversation with.  If I knew how to make the government and ad companies stop collecting data on me then I would.  If I could avoid using a bank I would, because I hate the fact that you can be traced via where you have used your card or where the money you took out went to.  Nobody seemed to complain when that happened.   Collecting metadata is today's bank transactions.  If I could around all these these things that make it easy for people to know who I am and what I'm doing I would.  Unfortunately we live in a world where that kind of convenience is something most people need in order to make their lives function on a day to day basis.  Learning to carry cash in Europe was difficult for me (well not really difficult just new).  I'm so accustomed to these things just working out and worrying about it later.  I know eventually I will have to worry about it, but I don't have the time right then, so I pay the price for the convenience.  Until this world returns to actually valuing morals and ethics I don't see what choice we have. I have always believed in that statement that if you work hard everything will work out.  I'm still waiting to see if someday all my hard work will pay off.  I trust it because I don't have a choice.  That is much the same situation with Facebook, Google, and the government.