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Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, read by Oliver Wyman.
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer and 'high-tech genius' (Sunday Times) who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effects are at the heart of its design, and explains in ten simple arguments why liberating yourself from its hold will transform your life and the world for the better.
Social media is making us sadder, angrier, less empathetic, more fearful, more isolated and more tribal. In recent months it has become horribly clear that social media is not bringing us together – it is tearing us apart. In Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Jaron Lanier draws on his insider's expertise to explain precisely how social media works – by deploying constant surveillance and subconscious manipulation of its users – and why its cruel and dangerous effects are at the heart of its current business model and design. As well as offering ten simple arguments for liberating yourself from its addictive hold, his witty and urgent manifesto outlines a vision for an alternative that provides all the benefits of social media without the harm.
So, if you want a happier life, a more just and peaceful world, or merely the chance to think for yourself without being monitored and influenced by the richest corporations in history, then the best thing you can do, for now, is delete your social media accounts – right now. You will almost certainly become a calmer and possibly a nicer person in the process.
'A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read' ZADIE SMITH
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"A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read." (Zadie Smith)
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- Esther Power
- 28-07-20
world changing book! delete your accounts!
the guy doing the voice is great. its a little bit of a complicated listen at points but the argument is obvious and simple. social media is bad.
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- Cezz
- 03-08-21
found it fasinating
The narrator was great kept me wanting to find out more, very interesting, inspirational to delete social medias or to diactivate and really think about the effect it can have on our mental state and how to minimize the anxiety.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-01-22
Shame about the politics
The author seems far left and a lot of the political things he mentioned hasn't aged well and most turned out to befalse. That's a real shame as what did come through was how social media works. If he took the political bias it would be good information for everyone
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- Mr. R. Fantini
- 12-09-20
A Must Read
This is only the start or the end... So much great information in the book .
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- Jack Hargreaves
- 24-04-21
An interesting listen
My only dislike was the narrator has the voice of a dodgy businessman trying to sell you some high-quality meats at fantastic wholesale prices. I’d prefer someone who sounds a bit more authentic.
Still very much a worthwhile listen though – I’d recommend it.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-04-21
OK, not great
I had high hopes for this but I lost interest pretty quickly. The content is a bit repetitive and it's not overly original. Also, not keen on how it's narrated. The guy uses an irritating tone so it sounds like everything he's saying is a question.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-04-21
Excellent would recommend
Very good book. Engaging and well argued. The narration is excellent also. Would recommend it.
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- Sarah L
- 01-11-21
Book of our times
I needed to hear this, to gain perspective on social media and the impact it’s having on society.
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- Ollie
- 01-01-24
Good but a little contradictory at the end
Overall was a good read. I actually work in the Tech Industry myself so I had a head start understanding the algorithms social media companies create.
This did push me to delete Twitter and minimise my data and usage where possible on my other social media accounts, just enough where I can at least enjoy seeing family members pictures which is the only thing keeping me on Instagram and Facebook now.
The author described a lot of good arguments and how social media is hurting us, the BUMMER acronym was annoying in all honesty but I managed to push through it.
The conclusion was a bit weird on how the title of the book was a little different to what the author was asking you to do and how they suddenly went first person as a Silicon Valley techie themselves.
Good awareness for people who are likely a lot deeper into social media than me and haven't been educated on how it can manipulate you. Highly recommend reading it if you're spending more time looking at your curated news feeds than actually going outside, meeting people and understanding a lot of the social issues that social media tries to show isn't actually real or exaggerated to the extent these bots, activists and hackers want you to believe.
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- John
- 20-08-18
Insight into the dynamics behind social media.
I always felt/thought there was something slightly bizarre about the recent phenomenon of social media and it's almost whole sale use and acceptance. This book has helped me understanding the, almost hiddern, economic and psychological mechanism which has propelled social media to the center stage of society. We give our data (both factual and behavioural) and attention to social media platforms for free. They sell this data. For example Facebook has a yearly revenue of around 7billion. Our data and attention is there for used for financial or political gains by social media platforms, political lobiests and business that use your data for targeted advertising. Is there however a net gain for the individual and society who 'use/used by' these 'free' platforms?
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