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Wonder Cabinet

Should You Delete Your Facebook Account? [Rebroadcast]

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

You're thinking about hitting “delete” on all of it — Facebook, Twitter. But is that the answer, or should we resolve to stick around and make things better?

Guests:

Jaron LanierEthan ZuckermanWhitney PhillipsDeRay MckessonYuval Noah Harari

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's to the best of our knowledge.

0:02.7

Your finger is hovering over the delete button on Facebook.

0:06.6

Your friends are abandoning Twitter.

0:08.6

Every day brings fresh revelations of data breaches.

0:11.8

Privacy abuses, Russian spies, trolls.

0:15.4

Is it time to finally hit delete on all of it?

0:18.1

You can live a full life without being on social media.

0:21.6

You guys, you're checking your Twitter feeds constantly in this way that's just insane.

0:25.6

You have a problem that you need to address.

0:28.6

I'd love to see more of these Silicon Valley folks who are getting away from these platforms

0:31.6

work on reforming them rather than simply telling us that they're bad and then taking their

0:35.6

millions and going away.

0:36.6

I'm Anne Strange Champs.

0:38.7

This hour, social media, fatally flawed,

0:41.5

manipulative, divisive platforms,

0:43.9

or places to build community.

0:45.9

You know, I always think about Twitter

0:46.9

is like the friend that's always awakened

0:48.4

so many ways.

0:49.7

It helped all of us have a platform

0:51.6

and really push for things

0:53.3

and use that as a way to build power.

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