RSS and the death of generalised conversation

In my ever increasing utilisation of RSS subscriptions, it's been dawning on me over the past couple of months that Gen X, Y & Millennial’s who’ve taken strongly to using RSS aggregators for their daily news fix has a very detrimental effect on today’s society!

The rationale for my reasoning follows this line of thought: An individual who uses an aggregation service (such as Google Reader) subscribes to RSS feeds he‘s interested in. Those feeds are amalgamations of other individuals’ thoughts that are of interest to that subscriber. This therefore leads to an individual gaining knowledge in an ever increasing very narrow perception of society, based mostly around his ideals.

In the past a person bought a newspaper, which comprised of a varied cross section of current news. The subscriber would therefore glean information from a wide knowledge base, irrespective of his current interests. Skimming a paper raised awareness of the social structures irrespective of his immediate interests. An individual could then converse with a wider variety of people, due to his greater current news knowledge

Are we therefore creating groups of people who live in their own online communities, building an ever higher wall around their communities with a future fear that they won’t be able to converse with others of differing belief structures…..

Food for thought, am I being too alarmist here! Interested in your comments…..