Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ranked #25 in Social Media, Ranked #72 in Internet
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 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms.
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... more
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David Heinemeier Hansson Where How to Break Up with Your Phone took a pretty tame view of social media – hey, maybe it’s not great, so let’s just do a bit less – this book goes for the jugular. Reviewing all the ways social media companies are conspiring against us, selling our attention to the highest bidder (whether that be an ad for a new car or a new president), and how the algorithms that drive social-media engagement are self-optimizing for the worst of everything. There wasn’t that much new information here, especially for someone who’s been paying close attention to the social media landscape for years, but... (Source)
Lauren Laverne @seaninsound @shaunwkeaveny Yes. It’s a great book. (Source)
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