Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier is a compelling appeal from a Silicon Valley innovator. Lanier, who avoids social media himself, presents strong and personal reasons to quit these harmful platforms. He highlights how social media can bring out negative behaviors, distort politics, create false senses of popularity, warp our grasp of truth, and isolate us despite constant connectivity. It also undermines our free will through targeted advertising controlled by powerful corporations. Lanier, hopeful about technology’s future, imagines a more humane form of social networking that fosters deeper, more meaningful connections.