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BUMMER services need you to be miserable. After all, you wouldn't interact with BUMMER unless you were happy and simply hanging out with buddies in the everyday world. However, if you're continuously feeling insecure and nervous, you will become more inclined to feed the BUMMER system by, for instance, clicking to view the number of likes your photo has received. It makes you dependent and allows BUMMER businesses to reap ever-increasing revenues. Chapter 8 - Argument 8: The things you give up for free are what social media businesses use to generate a bunch of costs. You have probably been told that many positions will soon be mechanized, making individuals who currently hold them obsolete. Just consider translators as an example. Nowadays, people frequently utilize appropriate translation tools like Google Translate rather than hiring a professional translator. Although such equipment is frequently referred to as "smart," this only uses data that Google collects from users. Google's computers aggregate untold billions of translations produced by actual individuals each day. A poem might be translated from French to German for a colleague using Google Docs. Since Google is free to utilize any data you submit on a BUMMER platform, it can employ that transcription to improve its algorithms. To put it another way, BUMMER businesses fail to compensate people for their contributions, much alone the data they supply, even as they warn that individuals will eventually be replaced by machines. Or, to put it more crudely, the BUMMER engine makes people more financially vulnerable. The BUMMER marketing strategy should be changed, which is the most obvious option. This is not inconceivable in any way. Ted Nelson, a forerunner in the field of information technology, put up a plan in the 1960s that would allow users to send and receive small payments in exchange for access to material on a digital network. The individuals who made the greatest contributions to the architecture of the internet, however, rejected this concept. These individuals advocated that technology ought to be public and available, which ultimately resulted in the commercial marketing strategy used by BUMMER. Because Google and Facebook were initially attractive since they were free, these businesses were able to expand so quickly. But by opening a Google or Facebook page, we gave our consent to be watched and gave up ownership of the stuff we create when using their platforms. The trade made was not wise. Making consumers pay a little monthly fee for the material they use would be the greatest way to undo the harm. Given that the utilities are now free, this can sound negative. However, users would be capable of earning money from contributions in addition to paying. Chapter 9 - Argument 9: Social networks have a harmful influence on the government environment. People in democratic nations are more prone to trust in progress. For instance, they do not believe that the nation in which they currently reside would stop being democratic; instead, people view democracy as the cornerstone for several additional advantageous advancements. BUMMER is also altering this, though. As follows: The initial users of a novel social networking site are typically hip, educated, and youthful people who genuinely want to transform society. Although they work to change things for the better, BUMMER is keeping track of their routines, deeds, and loves and dislikes. Simply put, it is what BUMMER systems achieve. These youthful idealists are adversely affected by this. They are herded together, which makes it feasible to bombard people with information that, based on statistics, is likely to cause people a little less forgiving or impatient. Or, to put it another way, it divides them and feeds tribalism. Here is a concrete illustration: There were significant LGBTQ victories in the US in the decades before the 2016 presidential election. As same-sex marriage became legal, trans persons were more accepted and felt more at ease coming out. Without a doubt, social media played a role in these advances. BUMMER, however, has a propensity towards asshole conduct, as you will recall. Once the jerks themselves realized this, they started spreading hate speech online that was specifically directed at LGBTQ individuals. For the first time in ages, these views were unexpectedly more tolerable. And now, those the author describes as "remarkably violent anti-LGBTQ personalities" have indeed been elevated to the highest positions of government in the United States. This election system will go on as long as BUMMER remains in power. When an idealistic, upbeat movement starts to take shape, it will become a targetable demographic that the biggest assholes in the world can control and harass. To put it another way, the election system will be hampered once BUMMER is in office. Chapter 10 - Argument 10: Digital networks represent a fresh conceptual structure that reduces people to "hackable" objects. It is indeed fair to equate utilizing BUMMER products to becoming caged and to compare BUMMER businesses to cognitive psychologists who monitor and influence your behavior all the time. This contrast, however, falls short of expressing the scope of such BUMMER phenomena. In the end, society as a whole is being misled, not simply a select group of individuals in a small number of isolated research. BUMMER and religion are similar in this regard. It is a structured system that affects and directs a sizable portion of the global populace in covert and overt ways. Consequently, utilizing BUMMER is equivalent to embracing, in the author's mind, "a new spiritual structure." The most enigmatic and important concerns facing humanity are attempted to be answered by spiritual practices. Why are we here? What is the point of life? What happens when we die? Asking these questions, which are outside the scope of science, is part of what distinguishes us as humans. These questions have a comprehensive and straightforward response from BUMMER: life's goal is optimization. Part of Google's purpose is to arrange the world's data. This means "arrange all reality" in Silicon Valley since, in the world of technology, information equals real things. However, individuals on social media are constantly battling to improve their online visibility by appearing higher in search results or creating films that are easy to view. This ethos excludes all notions of spirituality and unfathomable wonder. Both the mind and the body are essential things that will inevitably be compromised. The structure of enhancement provided by BUMMER has thus replaced the previous spiritual framework. Society's belief in the uniqueness of humans is threatened by this theoretical framework. It equalizes them with almost everything, including software packages, machines, and other devices that can be optimized. It destroys our spirits, in other words. BUMMER not just violates your privacy and dignity, but it also robs you of a fully realized episode that is individuality. As in the BUMMER universe, all that exists of you is a collection of automated process acts and behaviors, the total of your likes and comments on your postings. Delete your accounts if you desire to regain your soul. Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier Book Review Browsing social networking sites is similar to being caged in a scientist's lab since you are always being observed, scrutinized, and controlled. BUMMER, the business strategy used by the social corporate entities that are monitoring you, is the root of the issue instead of any specific system. This marketing strategy is based on providing your information to marketers who want to influence your behavior and persuade you to make a purchase. It also promotes asshole behavior, robs individuals of their financial dignity, stifles democracy, and diminishes our understanding of what it means to be human. Until a better system is developed, you should deactivate your social network accounts. Get away from BUMMER for a while. You've probably had some positive social media experiences, so you may not wish to remove your accounts. Consider giving yourself a break for, perhaps, a week or indeed a month and watch your feelings. Until you take a vacation from BUMMER, it might not be clear how dependent you have gotten on social networks and the negative effects it is indeed holding on you.