
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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Narrated by:
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Oliver Wyman
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By:
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Jaron Lanier
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is 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 audiobook, 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 that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the “benefits” of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom?
Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us towards richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.
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"Narrator Oliver Wyman brings his full complement of vocalizations to this polemic on social media and what it is doing to us. His cadence and delivery are spot-on...." (AudioFile Magazine)
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Great topic, but too much of authors politics.
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A good message
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Very Educational!
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If you can handle the truth, this is for you.
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Wow... wow... WOW. A MUST listen/read for everyone
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Too much political views
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However, a combination of the mechanical coldness described in this book and the sober heartlessness cautiously executed daily by companies like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Google (probably others) has given me serious doubt of the worthiness an Instagram account has in my life.
Friends of mine recommended Lanier to me and this was the first book I’ve read by him and I wish I read it sooner. If it doesn’t make me leave social media it will definitely make me reconsider what an account with one of these companies costs me personally.
I hope we can all unfuck ourselves.
Hard to hear but I wish I heard it sooner
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I found this book on social media.
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Must read for parents, politicians, teachers, all.
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