Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Quotes

“Go to where you are kindest”

“To free yourself, to be more authentic, to be less addicted, to be less manipulated, to be less paranoid … for all these marvelous reasons, delete your accounts.”

“The inability to carve out a space in which to invent oneself without constant judgment; that is what makes me unhappy.”

“Here’s a non-geeky framing of the same idea: What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?”

“Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward”

“What might once have been called advertising must now be understood as continuous behavior modification on a titanic scale.”

“How can you find happiness without authentic self-esteem? How can you be authentic when everything you read, say, or do is being fed into a judgment machine”

“One of the main reasons to delete your social media accounts is that there isn’t a real choice to move to different social media accounts. Quitting entirely is the only option for change. If you don’t quit, you are not creating the space in which Silicon Valley can act to improve itself.”

“Your character is the most precious thing about you. Don’t let it degrade.”

“Speaking through social media isn’t really speaking at all. Context is applied to what you say after you say it, for someone else’s purposes and profit.”