Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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.

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**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 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 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.

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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 DOESN T WANT YOU TO HAVE ECONOMIC DIGNITY

Double BUMMER 93
Baby BUMMER 94
Conflicted BUMMER 97
BUMMER blin…