Recently, a lot of my friends have started using their facebook status to post political beliefs.  I think it’s great, however it does come at a price for friends of yours who don’t agree with you.

You see, on facebook, it’s my closest friends reading my status.  So if a friend with a dissenting opinion reads my status and is compelled by a post to offer a differing opinion, he can’t reply to it to argue because he would do so knowing I have spent my entire life orienting myself with a group of friends which essentially forms an overly complex system of confirmation bias.

To correct this, people post on their OWN facebook status their own beliefs.  This forms a cycle in which everyone is expousing beliefs to cope with annoying friends they disagree with.

Is this a bad thing?  I am not sure.  People are discussing their ideas more, and becoming more interested in policies and politics.  Regardless, I have a feeling it is one small stone in a large quarry of the trend of people grouping up more and more by self similarity in society.  Doing so is rational, beneficial, yet  perhaps less colorful.