156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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How to Quit Social Media
If negative emotions are easier to trigger, how could social media not make you sad? If your consumption of content is tailored by near limitless observations harvested about people like you, how could your universe not collapse into the partial depiction of reality that people like you also enjoy? Well, I mean, wow, it's optimizing for making us feel bad so that we engage more and to further our addiction. It really seems to help people with the exception of those who really have a special need that's addressed by the technology.
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