> Is the world segregating such that there are fewer shared activities in a community to talk about?
Yes very much so. I'll notice it mostly on google news. For many things I search for, Google News starts to show me articles on that topic. If I look up an event, restaurant or movie the topic then becomes a regular topic in my Google News page. It makes the topic feel bigger than it is, and of course, crowds out other topics so that I'm not hearing about them.
This is a good articulation of something I've noticed more and more recently with Google News. I used to feel like I was getting a broad overview of the news of the day by browsing it... Increasingly it feels like a filter bubble constructed just for me, which is unsettling and not that useful to me. I suppose it's time to seek out other sources of news aggregation.
Yes very much so. I'll notice it mostly on google news. For many things I search for, Google News starts to show me articles on that topic. If I look up an event, restaurant or movie the topic then becomes a regular topic in my Google News page. It makes the topic feel bigger than it is, and of course, crowds out other topics so that I'm not hearing about them.