📖 You should delete twitter right now, claims Jaron Lanier in a book about quitting social media. Why?
👿 Social networks make you an asshole
🙈 Using them makes your worldview narrow
😡 You become extreme
🤬 Your behavior is aggressively modified
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👿 Social networks make you an asshole
🙈 Using them makes your worldview narrow
😡 You become extreme
🤬 Your behavior is aggressively modified
kobyofek.com/articles/jaron… 👇
👿 You become an asshole because Twitter encourages power struggles.
On Twitter, you fight for prestige, for like counts, for follower counts, and for replies and retweets.
Twitter currency is attention and the best ways to draw attention are snarky ways.
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On Twitter, you fight for prestige, for like counts, for follower counts, and for replies and retweets.
Twitter currency is attention and the best ways to draw attention are snarky ways.
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🙈 Using Twitter makes your worldview narrow.
It sounds counter-intuitive.
Lanier claims that because feeds are personalized you never know to what information are other people exposed to.
It makes it harder to understand other people's motifs & reasoning.
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It sounds counter-intuitive.
Lanier claims that because feeds are personalized you never know to what information are other people exposed to.
It makes it harder to understand other people's motifs & reasoning.
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😡 You become extreme
Social media mechanisms work to pull you to the edges. To make you happy or furious.
To show you extreme sides and opinions.
To make you play a part in identity politics.
To fight, to hate the other, to lose #empathy to other opinions.
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Social media mechanisms work to pull you to the edges. To make you happy or furious.
To show you extreme sides and opinions.
To make you play a part in identity politics.
To fight, to hate the other, to lose #empathy to other opinions.
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🤬 Your behavior is aggressively modified
Social Media uses a mechanism called #BUMMER, or Behaviors of Users Modified and Made into Empires for Rent.
It basically means that behavioristic and pavlovian tricks are played on you to buy, think, or do whatever advertisers want. 👇
Social Media uses a mechanism called #BUMMER, or Behaviors of Users Modified and Made into Empires for Rent.
It basically means that behavioristic and pavlovian tricks are played on you to buy, think, or do whatever advertisers want. 👇
🏭 BUMMER works by making endless experiments on your reactions to content you are exposed to.
It plays with your feelings and emotions. It tests how you react to extremes and rents your emotional datastream to the highest bidder.
Why? It all starts with the business model 👇
It plays with your feelings and emotions. It tests how you react to extremes and rents your emotional datastream to the highest bidder.
Why? It all starts with the business model 👇
Social Media makes money without charging you a cent to use it.
When you don't pay money for something, you become the product.
Your data is sold or rented to advertisers which buy the right to manipulate you to buy stuff, to vote or not vote for stuff, to think about stuff. 👇
When you don't pay money for something, you become the product.
Your data is sold or rented to advertisers which buy the right to manipulate you to buy stuff, to vote or not vote for stuff, to think about stuff. 👇
However good are his arguments, one needs to remember:
Quitting social media is a privileged privilege.
People rely on social media for communication, information, and employment.
When you quit, you are out of the loop for protest, knowledge, and group forming.
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Quitting social media is a privileged privilege.
People rely on social media for communication, information, and employment.
When you quit, you are out of the loop for protest, knowledge, and group forming.
However 👇
There is a middle ground.
Being aware of how social media impacts our behavior is a huge step for change.
Being aware of being tracked helps with acquiring tools for keeping your #privacy.
Knowing the economic incentives of the tools you use, help you become better users. 👇
Being aware of how social media impacts our behavior is a huge step for change.
Being aware of being tracked helps with acquiring tools for keeping your #privacy.
Knowing the economic incentives of the tools you use, help you become better users. 👇
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