I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear and Vivit, conversations about connecting and communicating.

The bad thing is the manipulation.

The problem is that these platforms, and I mean specifically things like you to Facebook,

Twitter.

The only way they can make money is when somebody is paying them out of the belief that they'll

be able to manipulate the users.

It's actually a pretty simple system at its core and it's one that is not survivable.

I mean if it just keeps on running the way it is, it'll destroy us.

Sharon Laniar was there at the beginning.

He helped build the internet and he was one of the creators of virtual reality.

But now he thinks something has gone very wrong with our new digital world.

It's actually something very, very wrong.

And this at a time when we communicate with one another it seems more through social

media than actual socialization.

Sharon, this is really great to be talking to you.

You've written this provocative and scary book and the provocative part is right on the

cover.

Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now.

The scary part is when you open the book and you actually read what your arguments are,

they're truly scary.

They're watching us all the time.

When I say they, I don't mean people in these corporations from what I get from your book

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