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amrenina 's review for:
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Lots of interesting ideas, bits of information and messages, but I cannot rate it higher.
The reasons for that are:
1. I feel like I now know at least as much about the author's personal life, feelings and opinions about all sorts of random things (unrelated to the book's topic) as I do about social media and why people should stop using it...not necessarily bad, but makes it feel more like a blog or self biography than a non fiction book.
2. I can't help but suspect "BUMMER" was something Lanier thought about and then spent a week or so trying hard to find the right words ("Behaviors of Users Modifies, and Made into an Empire for Rent") to form the acronym and then was really proud of it and overly excited to use the name every chance he got.
3. The amount of times he's said he would return to or talk about something in a chapter/argument to come (which fair enough they sort of were related) and especially the first half of the book that is filled with 'read speed bumps' of "we'll cover this later", just took me personally out of the flow of the book.
The reasons for that are:
1. I feel like I now know at least as much about the author's personal life, feelings and opinions about all sorts of random things (unrelated to the book's topic) as I do about social media and why people should stop using it...not necessarily bad, but makes it feel more like a blog or self biography than a non fiction book.
2. I can't help but suspect "BUMMER" was something Lanier thought about and then spent a week or so trying hard to find the right words ("Behaviors of Users Modifies, and Made into an Empire for Rent") to form the acronym and then was really proud of it and overly excited to use the name every chance he got.
3. The amount of times he's said he would return to or talk about something in a chapter/argument to come (which fair enough they sort of were related) and especially the first half of the book that is filled with 'read speed bumps' of "we'll cover this later", just took me personally out of the flow of the book.