Citizen journalism and the risk of the social media echo chamber

Social media is evolving into a cold and reactionary place. An echo chamber where what we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing, and when people step out of line in the smallest ways we destroy them leading to endless flame wars and accusations of trolling. As we become locked into our social media Eco-sphere we find ourselves trapped within a bubble of our own creation. Search Engines provide us with the answers they think we want and we are complicit in this by spasmodically liking and following anything that reinforces our view point. As more of us gain our 'news' from Twitter we find ourselves in danger of losing any challenges to the status quo.