Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Scientist Jaron Lanier offers ten reasons for deleting our social media accounts now.

1. You are losing your free will.
2. Quitting social media is the most finely targeted way to resist the insanity of our times.
3. Social media is making you into an a-hole.
4. Social media is undermining truth.
5. Social media is making what you say meaningless.
6. Social media is destroying your capacity for empathy.
7. Social media is making you unhappy.
8. Social media doesn't want you to have economic dignity.
9. Social media is making politics impossible.
10. Social media hates your soul.

It seems pretty clear that social media is toxic. Is the toxicity terminal for individuals? For our society?