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The Opinion Pageant - by Gurwinder - The Prism

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The pressure to have an opinion is creating a fake society

Before we all became mesmerised by the internet, humans spent most of their time in the real world. Here, people tended to interact with each other in the flesh, and as such, one could get a good sense of a person's character by observing their behaviour. This all changed with the rise of social media. The transition from a world in which people interact in person to one in which they interact through text led to a shift in the way we define and judge people. With little visibility of a person's deeds, we had to focus on their words. And so we began to define people primarily by their…

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