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Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now
- Author
- Lanier, Jaron, author.
- Title
- Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now / Jaron Lanier.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First edition.
- Published
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. ©2018
- Description
- x, 146 pages ; 22 cm
- Variant title
- 10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
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- 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.
- 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.
- Subject headings
- Internet--Social aspects. Social media.
- Genre heading
- Nonfiction. New titles added.
- ISBN
- 9781250196682 (hardcover) 125019668X (hardcover)
- Standard Identifier
- 40028302170
Holdings
- Library
- Blmgtn - Herman B Wells Library
- Call Number
- HM851 .L3579 2018
- Location
- Checked out Due: 08-23-2024