The information that populates your universe depends on your filter bubble, which, in turn, depends on who you are and what you do online.

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Despite easy access to information, people find it comfortable to live in a bubble filled with like-minded views.

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The Facebook deal is "very reminiscent of the Internet bubble, " says one Goldman client who received information about the offering but planned to spend little time reviewing it, partly because the deal is being assembled so fast.

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In general, economic boom-and-bust cycles have become increasingly shorter over the last 30 years, and with the prevalence today of real-time information, instant trades, and inextricably-linked international markets, this bubble will rise and fall more quickly and under greater scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers.

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