Diez Razones Para Borrar Tus Redes Sociales de Inmediato / Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Paperback/Jaron Lanier

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Description Un brillante manifiesto que llama a la acci n para comenzar a reinventar Internet. Te cuesta imaginar una vida sin redes sociales? Y si te dieran 10 argumentos explicando la toxicidad de sus efectos?En este libro, Jaron Lanier nos explica con una contundencia abrumadora como las redes sociales, al desplegar una vigilancia constante y manipular el inconsciente de sus usuarios, nos est n convirtiendo en personas rencorosas, tristes, asustadizas, poco emp ticas, aisladas y triviales. Si quieres una vida m s feliz, un mundo m s justo y pac fico, o simplemente la oportunidad de pensar por ti mismo sin ser monitoreado e influenciado por las corporaciones m s ricas de la historia, lo mejor que puedes hacer es cancelar tus cuentas. Ahora. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Lanier's reasons for freeing ourselves from social media's poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more "connected" than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so w