Jaron Lanier

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.
You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. In his important new book, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms behind before it's too late.
Lanier's reasons for freeing ourselves from social media's poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected” than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history…
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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.

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