Features & Benefits
- Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier argues that we’re better off without social media.
- Lanier offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms.
- Social media brings out the worst in us, makes politics terrifying and disconnects us from others.
- We are under continual surveillance and prodded by algorithms that manipulate our behavior.
- The benefits of social media don’t outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom.
- But, Lanier also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living.