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156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Importance of Social Perception

People have different views of reality because we're seeing totally different things on social media. So if everybody's seeing this slightly different world that's optimized to manipulate them, then when they talk to each other, they don't have as much of a basis of shared experience and empathize. And so when you talk to somebody who's using social media, it's kind of weird. It's like they've been away in their social media world, but everybody has been. Then it's almost like we all become slightly strangers or every single day we've returned from some weird vacation that nobody else can relate to. When you have people evolve to pay attention to the people around them are paying attention to

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