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Re:Some in Silicon Valley wonder if Facebook has grown too i... by JBReefer on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:44AM (#12920728)
I respectfully disagree - after the election, my liberal friends filled my timeline with screeds about the death of America and minorities, while my conservative friends messaged me privately in celebration. I didn't see a single pro-Trump post all day.

As a centrist, the level of vitriol was very shocking, and it did not come from the party you'd expect.

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Re:Some in Silicon Valley wonder if Facebook has grown too i... by harveywi on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:07AM (#12920948)
> my liberal friends filled my timeline with screeds about the death of America and minorities, while my conservative friends messaged me privately in celebration. I didn't see a single pro-Trump post all day.

This is an example of "preference falsification". The energy (in "the ability of a system to do work" sense) of aptly-named social media is social pressure.

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