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2/ Jaron Lanier, the VR pioneer, has written and talked extensively and persuasively about this subject over the years. After much reflection, he has won me over. I'm just short of deleting Twitter totally- only because we have such a big audience here.
3/ What this means: No more political posts nor trying to change the world with tweets; no more engagement with comments; and no more attempting to make arguments 280 characters at a time that inevitably get taken out of context.
4/ There's a number of things motivating this. Jaron's arguments are extremely persuasive to me, but also there's personal reasons that I'm not going to go into here. Mainly, I simply think social media is breaking brains. It's mental junk food. It's addicting.
5/ I'll stop there because otherwise I'll be contradicting myself with trying to persuade on Twitter. But I simply encourage others to reflect on the state of the world, their own experiences with social media, and then consider if you really need or want that.
There's lots of issues with social media, but in many ways it's also been a boon for minorities: finding each other, so many minority-led political movements were organized and funded right here, with strong "real world" consequences.
Twitter brought a lot of good things to me, none of which money-motivated. I'm curious to read the book you mentioned, but for me the issue isn't social media but the American approach to it that backfired
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