Echo Chamber

A phenomenon partly fueled by human's tendency for confirmation bias. Echo chamber is an environment where a person only surrounds themselves with information that aligns or supports their existing belief/opinion, which only further reinforces their beliefs/opinion and becoming a vicious cycle. It is one that greatly contributes to the polarization of people in social media. And with the help of algorithms applied by social medias. This phenomenon becomes far more easy to fall into since it brings people to find like-minded communities and feed them the same thing over and over again. Echo chamber is one of the reasons why 'factions' exist amongst societies. When you are inside an echo chamber, you are only expose to the best side of your beliefs and the worst side of your opposite beliefs. And this only leads to everyone thinking that 'the other side' is dumb and has no logic. Echo Chamber is a poison that you should escape from. It is one of the major blocks that hinders critical thinking and discourages people from questioning their own beliefs/assumptions.This only leads to stagnation and ultimately, a lack of progress. Bad examples: -Climate Change is not real -earth is flat' Good examples: -the belief that environmental issues are the biggest issues we are currently facing and those that don't care is considered ignorant or uncaring. -strict gun control. Pro-Gun vs Anti-Gun -abortion issues. Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice