On the surface, social media exists to keep human beings connected. But at its core, its business model relies on surveilling, analyzing, and manipulating your behavior in order to more effectively sell you things. It also deprives you of your economic dignity, hampers the democratic process, and even undermines your experience of humanity. In this episode Jaron Lanier, author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, the man who coined the term "virtual reality," and one of the architects of the early and not-so-early Internet, dissects how social media companies curate and essentially control what we see, think, and feel. He also starred recently in the massively popular Netflix Documentary - The Social Dilemma. ✍️ Full show notes and worksheets for this episode: https://jordanharbinger.com/156 What We Discuss with Jaron Lanier: 💡 The real cost of the “everything is free” mentality that accompanied the cultural proliferation of the Internet and social media. 💡 How social media manipulates human behavior to threaten free will. 💡 Why negative emotions are the lifeblood of social media. 💡 How social media contributes to the mass production of misinformation. 💡 Why feeding on social media content tailored to you makes it difficult to empathize with the perspective of others. 💡And much more… 📖 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. now available to buy on Amazon https://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?TSID=96481&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2D5LW1w&dtb=1 Want to watch more in-depth interviews with some of the world’s most amazing and successful people click here for more full episodes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbAQB8BYtM&list=PLxuPu-uyanrrBgAl5-76enemxVsxFjnEQ&index=1 Never miss a single incredible insight by subscribing to the Jordan Harbinger Show here http://www.youtube.com/THEJORDANHARBINGERSHOW?sub_confirmation=1 Welcome to the Jordan Harbinger Show, a podcast where each week you get to join a conversation with some of the world’s highest achievers. I’ll ask them the tough questions to tease out their top tips so that you can reach levels of personal growth and mastery that you never imagined possible. Subscribe to the podcast: http://jordanharbinger.com/subscribe/ Learn more about Jordan: http://jordanharbinger.com/