[Sir Napsalot]

Obama lamented the Balkanization of the media for the 'extremists' views' (cough)rightwing(cough).

[RedStateRocker]

Total BS.

Maybe the dumbest thing I have read in a long while.

Facts have neither a conservative or liberal bias.

[Buckeye McFrog]

duh!....why do you think Liberals invented it?

[notdownwidems]

It's absolutely true! Nowadays employers, when considering a new hire, routinely monitor slackbook and other social media platforms...does anyone believe that 'controversial' comments, whether true or not, (or, particularly if they are true), don't count against the prospective job seeker? This alone has a true damping effect on political participation.

[meadsjn]

Mainstream media tries to convince people that they are weird if they have traditional conservative values.

Social media has informed many, many millions of normal humans that they are not abnormal, as the communist MSM and academia have insisted. In fact, the real abnormals are a minute percentage of the population, deploying all kinds of smoke and mirrors trying to terrorize the vast majority into embracing their sick, warped, bizarre, liberal behaviors.

People are waking up, thanks to the internet, and many of them are 'unfriending' even family members who think differently on the most critical issues. It's OK. Blood really is not thicker than values and principles.

[Steve_Seattle]

"The researchers also found that those who use social media regularly are more reluctant to express dissenting views in the offline world."

"Dissenting views"? A curious expression. Dissenting from what? And who determines what a "dissenting view" is?

[TBP]

My Facebook friends express their opinions all the time, and I differ with many of them on most issues and all of them on one issue or another.

[make no mistake]

I was just thinking about this today before reading this article. I decided to just put cute little animal post on
fb and stick with Free Republic for discussions of current events and politics. Very few people I know on fb even watch the news.