Time to maintain our impulsive appetite for irrelevant online lurking and gain control of a balance to what we spend our time viewing. Algorithms are deciding what we see and are not showing us what is being tailored out of our search results or newsfeed. There is no standard google search?! It is an eerie concept that we are being limited to the news we receive due to our prior interests on the Web. I do not want to be locked into the digital filter bubble that the algorithms have assumed for me. I want to be able to see what I want as well as what I need to see. I have created several different social media profiles and it is reassuring to know that there are free dashboards available to help me juggle the information overload. Now that I have been introduced to Netvibes, I feel confident and ready to handle my digital life. On Twitter, I follow different users that do not have any relation to each other and they are both posted on my newsfeed and thus get lost in the mix. With Netvibes, I am now able to make different categories for the news I want to receive. For example, I have made a new Tab and named it “Health”, now all of my health related news will only be in that tab and will not get lost in the various other topics I am interested in. I can make new tabs for sports, fashion, and any other topic I can think of. The information overload can be managed in a clear dashboard. After reading and viewing enlightening articles and speeches on algorithms and how to avoid the info junk food, I feel motivated to lead a balanced digital lifestyle, much like keeping a healthy diet. Netvibes is almost like my own personal food chart, but manages the news that I subscribe to view. I can rearrange my Tabs from most important to least and even change the viewing of the Feeds in each of the tabs. I can check the authenticity of sites that I wish to add with Snopes.com, Hoax-slayer.com, Delicious.com etc., just as one would check the Nutrition Facts on a product of food they were considering to consume. Very excited to personalize my Netvibes and work towards my future aspired self!
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