Ten arguments

 

 

 For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Social media is no more perfect and noble than the society that uses it.  Why delete your social media account if it pleases you to tell the world about your new birth or latest family upheaval.  Anyway, besides a hand full of people, who cares, and who reads it?  Social media is the release you get from dumping on family and friends and occasionally political rivals.  I know, long before social media as such I wrote so many emails to family that one sibling encouraged me to start a blog.  That was years ago and some of this stuff isn't to bad, albeit opinionated under the guise of art and other reasonable excuses to be heard.  Social media shapes society.  An example would be the human drones I saw in a local park.  All of them heads down staring into their phones while ignoring the magnificence of nature.  Aldous Huxley would be proud to see his somewhat zombie like fellow man mesmerized by a hand full of plastic and glass - the content of which has the potential todisrupt families and annihilates personal communications.  Is the portable electronic phone/ camera, etc. the Brave New World?  Hardly, there is nothing brave about an escape mechanism for people who have nothing better to do with their time on this earth.

 

 

Author of the book Jaron Lanier 

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