Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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- Author: Jaron Lanier
- ASIN: B079RXHTYR
- ISBN: 1847925391
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RXHTYR
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Highlights
founders of social media empires, which I prefer to call “behavior modification empires.” — location: 242
We need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever… . It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology… . The inventors, creators—it’s me, it’s Mark [Zuckerberg], it’s Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it’s all of these people—understood this consciously. And we did it anyway … it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other… . It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.fn1 — location: 244
bad technology — location: 263
But in many situations it’s a terrible basis for fascination. The allure of glitchy feedback is probably what draws a lot of people into crummy “codependent” relationships in which they aren’t treated well. — location: 313
People are keenly sensitive to social status, judgment, and competition. Unlike most animals, people are not only born absolutely helpless, but also remain so for years. We only survive by getting along with family members and others. Social concerns are not optional features of the human brain. They are primal. — location: 348
Whether or not positive feedback might in theory be more effective in certain cases, negative feedback turns out to be the bargain feedback, the best choice for business, so it appears more often in social media. — location: 374
How
But there’s something about the rigidity of digital technology, the on-and-off nature of the bit, that attracts the behaviorist way of thinking. — location: 389
You can’t pay social media companies to help end wars and make everyone kind. Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward. — location: 404
You’d have to be insensitive and uncaring to not change how you act around someone in response to how that person reacts. When mutual behavior modification gets good, it might be part of what we talk about when we talk about love. — location: 441
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Sentimental philosophy
Maybe free will exists when our adaptation to each other and the world has an exceptionally creative quality. — location: 443
People are clustered into paranoia peer groups because then they can be more easily and predictably swayed. The clustering is automatic, sterile, and, as always, weirdly innocent. — location: 907
Not only is your worldview distorted, but you have less awareness of other people’s worldviews. You are banished from the experiences of the other groups being manipulated separately. Their experiences are as opaque to you as the algorithms that are driving your experiences. This is an epochal development. The version of the world you are seeing is invisible to the people who misunderstand you, and vice versa. — location: 1109
Techies also practically worshipped hero entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs. Tech business leaders were maybe not as smart as hackers, as far as hackers were concerned, but they were still considered visionaries. We liked it when they got rich. — location: 1330
Really? Weak
Something is drawing young people away from democracy. — location: 1462
In india maybe