10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Study Questions #2 (pg. 42-77)

1. How does Lanier equate choosing a partner with choosing technologies?

 


2. What does Lanier say are the two extremes that people ricochet between on social media?

 


3. What is the solitary/Pack switch and how does it contribute to being and asshole on social media?

 


4. How does the jelly beans in a jar example illustrate why the solitary wolf setting is the best?

 


5. Why odes Lanier say Linked In is the social network with the fewest assholes on it?

 


6. What does Lanier say you should do if you feel the impulse to insult or irritate a person on a BUMMER platform?

 


7. How do bot armies undermine truth?

 


8. How do tech companiesbenefit from fake people?

 


9. Why is it hard for tech companies to authenticate the source of funding for fake ads?

 


10. What is different about the waves of untruth in the BUMMER era than in the past?

 


11. What extreme example does Lanier cite about advertizers can affect the context of their ads but users cannot?

 


12. What does Lanier say is the problem with making journalism subservient to the number of eyes that read it?

 


13. How has the real news become the fake news on BUMMER platforms?

 


14. How does Lanier describe podcasting if it followed the BUMMER model?

 


15. What is a filter bubble?