I know I'm right. My friends say so.

Social media has given us voices that go far, far beyond people we’ve met, beyond our homes and offices. We chatter a lot, we make friends, get quite addicted to counting our friends (never mind the quality, feel the width). Some of my Twitter contacts have over quarter of a million followers, and follow as many back. They take this stuff seriously.

The big turning point was when we learned our virtual voice was HUGE . We can rock governments, we can direct policy, we can change the very world. Yes! You and me!

WOW. The POWER!

Whoa. Hang on. One of my virtual friends has a different take on events? UNFRIEND (or UNFOLLOW) Oh, but hang on, that reduces my friends / follower count. Hmmm.

I’ll just block their notifications from my FB timeline, or mute the hashtags they use on Twitter when they are being boring. Sorted!

So now I can look smugly down my timelines, and see nothing that disagrees with my views on life.

The worrying little flaw in this is that it doesn’t seem to occur to anybody that they have filtered out conflicting opinions. They believe they share the views of every one of their hundreds of virtual friends. I’ve noticed the growing trend on FB and Twitter, bet you have too, towards being dogmatic, arrogant, intolerant and completely bigoted. I turned off notifications just today from a woman who has her head twisted so far to the left it’s a wonder she doesn’t fall down stairs.

So thank you, bloggers of CS, for your huge range of blogs. We may ignore the ones that don’t look, from the titles, as if they will fit our view on life, but we can’t ignore that other people, however misguided do have another view on life. In time this could become one of the few places left on social media where that still happens. That would be ironic - that we lot, with our strong views on any and everything, are the last people in the world who even realize there are other points of view.