Jaron Lanier - Dez Argumentos para Apagar já as Contas nas Redes Sociais

What was our life like before social media? Are we currently able to live without it? And if someone said that, for the sake of our survival, we should delete them all NOW, who would do it? In Ten Arguments for Deleting Social Media Accounts Now, Jaron Lanier, an insider who continues to act as the voice of conscience of the system he pioneered, offers ten powerful explanations for the urgent need for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. In a well-constructed and well-founded argumentative crescendo, Lanier demonstrates how social media brings out the worst in human beings and, with the tacit agreement of thousands of ignorant users, deceives us with illusions of popularity and success, distorting the notion of truth, disconnecting us from others even when we are more "connected" than ever, all to steal our free will, bombarding us with targeted ads. In a world where we are under the continuous surveillance and stimulation of algorithms managed by some of the most powerful corporations in human history, which make money by manipulating our behavior, how do we recognize these dangers? Without letting the exposure of the malevolence governing the business models of social networks today prevent him from remaining optimistic about technology, Lanier points to a humanist scenario for the future of social networks, with the well-being and balanced progress of humankind as the supreme value.