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10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Book • 2018
In this book, Jaron Lanier presents ten compelling arguments for why individuals should consider deleting their social media accounts.
He discusses how social media can undermine truth, destroy empathy, make users unhappy, and disrupt economic dignity and political discourse.
Lanier also introduces the concept of the 'BUMMER' machine, which describes how social media services modify user behavior for profit.
The book encourages readers to be more mindful of their social media use and its broader societal implications.
He discusses how social media can undermine truth, destroy empathy, make users unhappy, and disrupt economic dignity and political discourse.
Lanier also introduces the concept of the 'BUMMER' machine, which describes how social media services modify user behavior for profit.
The book encourages readers to be more mindful of their social media use and its broader societal implications.
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Mentioned in 13 episodes
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as a book where he discusses his arguments to delete social media accounts.


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as the book written by Jaron Lanier, who was a guest on the show previously.


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Mentioned in the episode as one of the people who answered Feynman's cataclysm question and knew Richard Feynman.

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The Cataclysm Sentence
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as a popular book on Blinkist.


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as an influential tech-critical book advocating deletion of social media, which inspired his thinking.

Rob Simpson
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as the author of a book on quitting social media, discussed in "The Social Dilemma."


Mike Schmitz

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Listed in episode shownotes as a book arguing for leaving social media due to societal harms.

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when referencing 

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Bari Weiss


Jaron Lanier

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Was the Internet a Horrible Mistake?
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as author, discussing social media and its effects.


Michael Matheson Miller

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en lien avec son opinion sur les réseaux sociaux.


Gaspard Koenig

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