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Jun 23, 2020 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 4 min read
πŸ“– You should delete twitter right now, claims Jaron Lanier in a book about quitting social media. Why?

πŸ‘Ώ Social networks make you an asshole

πŸ™ˆ Using them makes your worldview narrow

😑 You become extreme

🀬 Your behavior is aggressively modified

kobyofek.com/articles/jaron… πŸ‘‡ πŸ‘Ώ 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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