"Me and My Bubble"

Also ich glaube, dass relativ viele von uns halt auch so super in so einer linken Bubble irgendwie und dementsprechend dann auch in den Algorithmen drinne […] ist. Und dass man das dann halt super wenig sieht und dadurch ähm erst also weniger Berührungspunkte hat, sagen wir es mal so.

"But I mean, if you say something really absurd among friends or other people, you’d at least get a weird look or a comment that lets you know: okay, if I keep going in this direction, I’m going to lose my place here. They won’t accept me anymore. [...] Then you end up in the bubble that fits you. And then you can just talk your nonsense there."

"I mean, there are people with questionable views in every social class. But for US to really come into contact with them from our bubble and actually engage in a discourse is extremely rare. Because it won’t happen online. And how else do we come into contact? If it doesn’t really take place in our spaces, in real life."

"I also think that because social media often uses algorithms that keep you in your bubble, I probably don't comment under a post. Or I just don’t see it, I don’t know. But I can’t recall a specific situation. Maybe I associate it directly with Facebook, where there sometimes seems to be a clientele that’s a bit older and perhaps leans more to the right, or maybe under BILD articles, somehow..."

"Where I really notice how deeply I’m stuck in my own bubble on social media, to the point that I don’t notice anything outside of it and don’t see anything unless I maybe catch a post from Tagesschau. Then I’m a bit informed. But otherwise, I have no idea because I only follow things that I like."

"[…] that perhaps we’re also lucky that we don’t get much exposure to the other side from within our
bubble."

„I don’t have Twitter or like any media thing. I have only Insta but I have like closed profile and I’m only following my close friends…”