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informative reflective fast-paced

"As redes sociais deixam você infeliz. Pessoas criam representações falsas das próprias vidas como sendo mais saudáveis, felizes e livres de problemas do que são. Mecanismos profundos nas partes sociais de nosso cérebro monitoram nossa posição social, e ficamos morrendo de medo de sermos deixados para trás. Existe insegurança, um sentimento de não estar à altura, um medo de rejeição."

"Difícil largar uma rede social específica e ir para outra, porque todo mundo que você conhece já está na primeira. Um dos principais motivos para deletar suas contas nas redes sociais é que não existe uma escolha real de se mudar para redes diferentes. O vício aos poucos nos transforma em zumbis, e os zumbis não têm livre-arbítrio."

"A maioria dos usuários já se envolveu com perfis falsos na internet, sofreu rejeições sem sentido, foi menosprezado ou ignorado, experimentou sadismo total ou vivenciou todas as situações anteriores, ou algo pior. Assim como recompensas e punições trabalham juntas, o feedback desagradável, tanto quanto o agradável, pode desempenhar um papel no vício e na mudança comportamental sem que possamos perceber. As redes sociais produzem outra dimensão de estímulos: pressão social. As pessoas são extremamente sensíveis a questões como status social, julgamento e competição."

"Todos que estão nas redes sociais recebem estímulos individualizados, continuamente ajustados, sem trégua; é só estar usando o smartphone. O que antes podia ser chamado de propaganda deve agora ser entendido como uma modificação de comportamento permanente e em escala gigantesca."

Language warning but important read.
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hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

More hopeful than Carr, but also feels a bit like a lost hope given everything that’s occurred since it was published. Good and thoughtful arguments laid out with insight and optimism for our future online. 

Lanier makes a lot of good arguments here about the danger that algorithm-curated media had on your habits, psychology, understanding of the world, and other areas. While not everything is perfect (you might as well skip the politics chapter since it's nothing more than someone from one tribe calling everyone in the other tribe too tribal), you'll at least be able to understand what you're giving up when you allow companies to buy your data for free.
adventurous informative fast-paced

Working in technology as an engineer for 20 years, I used to absolutely hate Jaron Lanier. I found him overly pessimistic and depressing. I got into tech for similar reasons as him originally - I was excited about making a positive change to the world and felt that technology was going to change everything for the better.

Unlike him, I refused to see how the industry had changed and the technology that was once making the world genuinely better, had at best an neutral effect and in most cases, quite a negative one. I thought things weren't THAT bad.

But then I began to realise that the reason I hated him was because he was right. And not just right about a few things, he was right about EVERYTHING.

Despite all this, I still haven't managed to quit social media. Modern technology (including social media) is so deeply entwined in my life that it pretty much has become my life. And not just my personal and professional life, but most of our lives in our first-world countries.

So it is difficult to implement what he suggests, but there is no doubt about it, he's right - and it's very important to read this and understand WHY he is right, even if you don't end up doing the logical thing and following through on his advice.

Because unfortunately humans are not as logical as computers.

Didn't love it. The way the author writes is a little too extreme for me.