6| Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier’s new book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is opening the world’s eyes to the real world consequences of social media’s business model based on maximum addiction and distraction. And it goes way beyond wasting the precious hours of your life. Lanier makes an almost unassailable case that these social media platforms degrade us. But can we give them up? Jaron Lanier is the author of several best selling titles on technology and how they shape our world and worth listening to when he raises the alarm. Buy: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Author Website: JaronLanier.com Support WeCroak on Patreon Download our app, as featured in 10% Happier, Atlantic Magazine and The New York Times, at WeCroak.com Sounds by James Mercer