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Jaron Lanier

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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  • a burmistrovahas quoted6 years ago
    social media empires, which I prefer to call “behavior modification empires.”
  • Ilya Nesterovhas quoted3 years ago
    What you say isn’t meaningful without context.
  • Ilya Nesterovhas quoted3 years ago
    A junkie is addicted not just to the high, but to the vertiginous difference between the lows and the highs.
  • winmaulidan_has quoted3 years ago
    We’re being tracked and measured constantly, and receiving engineered feedback all the time. We’re being hypnotized little by little by technicians we can’t see, for purposes we don’t know. We’re all lab animals now.

    Algorithms gorge on data abo
  • Pao Ebihas quoted3 years ago
    I worry about young people growing up in our mess and believing this is how things always are.

    it’s happening

  • Pao Ebihas quoted3 years ago
    BUMMER is neither liberal nor conservative; it is just pro-paranoia, pro-irritability, and pro–general assholeness.
  • Pao Ebihas quoted3 years ago
    Young people were watching the most awful, sadistic videos, channeled to them by Silicon Valley companies, and the dynamic was like porn. Kids became addicted to atrocity.
  • Pao Ebihas quoted3 years ago
    We gathered in front of big screens watching kids in Tahrir Square in Cairo taking on a despotic government and we were in love. We celebrated as ordinary citizens used social media to tell NATO forces where to target air strikes. Social media put a modern army at the fingertips of ordinary social media users.
  • Pao Ebihas quoted3 years ago
    Memes to stimulate genocide often report something horrible that is said to have been done to children.
  • Pao Ebihas quoted3 years ago
    According to a United Nations report, social media is also a massively deadly weapon, literally, in South Sudan—because of shitposts.
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