Facebook Study Reveals Facebook Is Not An Echo Chamber (For Some Values Of ?Echo Chamber?)

Some of Facebook's scholars-in-residence have published an analysis of approximately 283 million Facebook users' sharing habits. The study, which has to do with the paths by which information is caught up and shared — which types of friends share the most, where you post the most content from, and so on. The study itself was, no doubt, spurred by honest intellectual curiosity, but the summary on Facebook a slightly editorializing bent that suggests things were more purposeful. The conclusions are largely in line with analogous social propagation situations. They cite "The Strength of Weak Ties," validate many of its hypotheses in relation to this new data, and use its terminology throughout. It should soothe, they say, those among us who feel Facebook may be something of an echo chamber. It seems to me, though, that the study actually reinforces that idea.

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