Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

Description: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description AS SEEN IN THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY THE SOCIAL DILEMMA A WIRED "ALL-TIME FAVORITE BOOK" A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK "THE CONSCIENCE OF SILICON VALLEY"- GQ "Profound . . . Lanier shows the tactical value of appealing to the conscience of the individual. In the face of his earnest argument, I felt a piercing shame about my own presence on Facebook. I heeded his plea and deleted my account." - Franklin Foer, The New York Times Book Review "Mixes prophetic wisdom with a simple practicality . . . Essential reading." - The New York Times (Summer Reading Preview) You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that were 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. Laniers reasons for freeing ourselves from social medias 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 toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world. Author Biography Jaron Lanier is a scientist, musician, and writer best known for his work in virtual reality and his advocacy of humanism and sustainable economics in a digital context. His 1980s start-up VPL Research created the first commercial VR products and introduced avatars, multi-person virtual world experiences, and prototypes of major VR applications such as surgical simulation. His books Who Owns the Future? and You Are Not a Gadget were international bestsellers, and Dawn of the New Everything was named a 2017 best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Vox. Table of Contents Introduction, with cats 1 ARGUMENT ONE YOU ARE LOSING YOUR FREE WILL Welcome to the cage that goes everywhere with you 5 The mad scientist turns out to care about the dog in the cage 8 Carrot and shtick 10 The allure of mystery 12 Heaven and hell are made of other people 16 Bit as bait 19 Addiction, meet network effect 21 Addiction and free will are opposites 23 ARGUMENT TWO QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE MOST FINELY TARGETED WAY TO RESIST THE INSANITY OF OUR TIMES The BUMMER machine 25 The parts that make up the BUMMER machine 29 The problem is limited, so we can contain it 37 ARGUMENT THREE SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING YOU INTO AN ASSHOLE Sooty snow 39 Meeting my inner troll 41 The mysterious nature of asshole amplification technology 44 The most masterful master switch 49 Go to where you are kindest 51 ARGUMENT FOUR SOCIAL MEDIA IS UNDERMINING TRUTH Everybody knows 53 When people are fake, everything becomes fake 55 BUMMER kills 59 ARGUMENT FIVE SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING WHAT YOU SAY MEANINGLESS Meaning ajar 65 Pod people 69 ARGUMENT SIX SOCIAL MEDIA IS DESTROYING YOUR CAPACITY FOR EMPATHY Digitally imposed social numbness 76 The lost theory in your brain 79 ARGUMENT SEVEN SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING YOU UNHAPPY Why do so many famous tweets end with the word "sad"? 81 The wrong end of the BUMMER 85 High castle 90 ARGUMENT EIGHT SOCIAL MEDIA DOESNT WANT YOU TO HAVE ECONOMIC DIGNITY Double BUMMER 93 Baby BUMMER 94 Conflicted BUMMER 97 BUMMER blinders 98 Better than BUMMER 99 The corp perspective 103 The user perspective 104 ARGUMENT NINE SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING POLITICS IMPOSSIBLE Arc burn 107 Arab Spring 110 Gamergate 113 LGBTQ 114 Neither left nor right, but down 115 Black Lives Matter 117 If only this game were already over 123 ARGUMENT TEN SOCIAL MEDIA HATES YOUR SOUL I met a metaphysical metaphor 125 The first four principles of BUMMER spirituality 126 BUMMER faith 132 BUMMER heaven 134 Existence without BUMMER 136 BUMMER anti-magic 137 CONCLUSION: CATS HAVE NINE LIVES Thank-yous 145 About the Author 147 Review A WIRED "All-Time Favorite Book"A Financial Times Best Book of 2018 "Profound . . . Lanier shows the tactical value of appealing to the conscience of the individual. In the face of his earnest argument, I felt a piercing shame about my own presence on Facebook. I heeded his plea and deleted my account."--Franklin Foer, The New York Times Book Review "Mixes prophetic wisdom with a simple practicality . . . Essential reading."--The New York Times (Summer Reading Preview) "The title says it all . . . Lanier advocates untethering from social media, which fosters addiction and anomie and generally makes us feel worse and more fearful about each other and the world . . . The experiment could be a useful one, though it will darken the hearts of the dark lords--a winning argument all its own." --Kirkus Reviews "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is not anti-tech or even anti-phone. It is one of the most optimistic books about the Internet Ive ever read because it dares to hope for better. Profoundly skeptical of the business model that undergirds social media, Lanier demonstrates the ways in which our social media accounts make us not consumer but product, our every connection monitored by unseen third parties who harvest our data, monetize our communication, and curate and manipulate our behavior. Another online life is possible, but first we have to destroy the one were trapped in. The great news is you dont have to take to the streets--you dont even have to leave your room. You can do it all by pressing one little key . . . A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read." --Zadie Smith, author of Feel Free Review Quote A WIRED " All-Time Favorite Book" "Profound . . . Lanier shows the tactical value of appealing to the conscience of the individual. In the face of his earnest argument, I felt a piercing shame about my own presence on Facebook. I heeded his plea and deleted my account." --Franklin Foer, The New York Times Book Review "Mixes prophetic wisdom with a simple practicality . . . Essential reading." -- The New York Times (Summer Reading Preview) "The title says it all . . . Lanier advocates untethering from social media, which fosters addiction and anomie and generally makes us feel worse and more fearful about each other and the world . . . The experiment could be a useful one, though it will darken the hearts of the dark lords--a winning argument all its own." -- Kirkus Reviews " Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is not anti-tech or even anti-phone. It is one of the most optimistic books about the Internet Ive ever read because it dares to hope for better. Profoundly skeptical of the business model that undergirds social media, Lanier demonstrates the ways in which our social media accounts make us not consumer but product, our every connection monitored by unseen third parties who harvest our data, monetize our communication, and curate and manipulate our behavior. Another online life is possible, but first we have to destroy the one were trapped in. The great news is you dont have to take to the streets--you dont even have to leave your room. You can do it all by pressing one little key . . . A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read." --Zadie Smith, author of Feel Free Details ISBN1250239087 Author Jaron Lanier Short Title 10 ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING YOUR Pages 176 Publisher Picador USA Language English ISBN-10 1250239087 ISBN-13 9781250239082 Format Paperback DEWEY 302.231 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-08-27 Imprint Picador USA Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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