Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now / Jaron Lanier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanier, Jaron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Social media.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

x, 146 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.

Summary:

Lanier offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave the dangers of online platforms behind. He has seen their 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. And he asks: How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? -- adapted from jacket.

Contents:

Introduction, with cats

You are losing your free will

Quitting social media is the most finely targeted way to resist the insanity of our times

Social media is making you into an asshole

Social media is undermining truth

Social media is making what you say meaningless

Social media is destroying your capacity for empathy

Social media is making you unhappy

Social media doesn't want you to have economic dignity

Social media is making politics impossible

Social media hates your soul

Conclusion: Cats have nine lives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781250196682

125019668X

OCLC:

1025373533