Me and a couple of my roommates actually got together and watched the debate. It was kind of nice to see that Millenials are interested in politics rather than just voting for a candidate because of what they hear or what their party affiliation is. As we were watching it, I compared my twitter and what was being shown to what was being shown on their account and I was shocked. I never really realized how tailored my twitter was to show me what they thought that I wanted to see.
My views and the views that I express on my twitter are more aligned with the Democratic party so I thought it would be interesting to compare my feed to my roommates who is much more on the Republican side. I was shocked by how much hate there was on both of our feeds. But, it was usually just hate on one person. When I looked at my feed and my trending hashtags, it showed people bashing on Donald Trump. But, when I switched to my friends account, it was just an overload of hate on Hillary. The thing that surprised me the most is the fact that neither of the accounts showed much positive on the candidate which twitter thought was being supported. I thought it would show a lot of support and positive materials about the said candidate, but it just showed more hate towards the candidate which the algorithms figured that you didn't like.
Until now, I had not realized that twitter was like this. I thought it just showed the most current and relevant trends and fed them to you. This was interesting to really show how something as national as a presidential debate can still be tailored to show you exactly what you want. It makes you realize how hard you really have to look to get the whole picture of a story from the media. Every outlet is going to be bias to show you either what you want to see or what they want you to see. With the increase in media availability, it is still just as hard to get the whole picture of a story.
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