Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

social media empires, which I prefer to call “behavior modification empires.”

What you say isn’t meaningful without context.

A junkie is addicted not just to the high, but to the vertiginous difference between the lows and the highs.

We’re being tracked and measured constantly, and receiving engineered feedback all the time. We’re being hypnotized little by little by technicians we can’t see, for purposes we don’t know. We’re all lab animals now.

Algorithms gorge on data abo

I worry about young people growing up in our mess and believing this is how things always are.

BUMMER is neither liberal nor conservative; it is just pro-paranoia, pro-irritability, and pro–general assholeness.

Young people were watching the most awful, sadistic videos, channeled to them by Silicon Valley companies, and the dynamic was like porn. Kids became addicted to atrocity.

We gathered in front of big screens watching kids in Tahrir Square in Cairo taking on a despotic government and we were in love. We celebrated as ordinary citizens used social media to tell NATO forces where to target air strikes. Social media put a modern army at the fingertips of ordinary social media users.

Memes to stimulate genocide often report something horrible that is said to have been done to children.

According to a United Nations report, social media is also a massively deadly weapon, literally, in South Sudan—because of shitposts.