# Filter and Label Your Email Ever wonder if you live in a bubble? This phenomenon is called filter bubble. This is when we are only surrounded by opinions that reflect our own and are not exposed to different perspectives. Filter bubbles are created by sites algorithms that take information such as our browsing history, age, location, and preferences, and as a result only shows us the according data. In this way echo chambers are created as our own believes are reinsured by news that emphasize what we already know. This is especially important today due to the political climate that we are in. This can be seen in the case of Brexit. Most people that voted to leave the European Union were older people that are not exposed to online information and news. On the other hand, those that voted to remain in the European Union were active online and were able to see news and opinions that explained why remaining would be beneficial. There are ways that we can prevent being in a filter bubble to an extent. We can take actions such as: using ad-blocking browser extensions and reading news sites and blogs from opposing perspectives to learn more about what others are saying. Furthermore, we can use incognito windows to stop web sites from getting information and deleting browser cookies that also prevents this from occurring. We can also use the filter setting to filter the content in our emails. I was able to do this to the class mailing list in my Northeastern email. This setting allows me to filter and label all emails from the neu-cda-bounces@reagle.org. **Rules** ![](https://i.imgur.com/sjvw6AD.png)