# Lanier’s Social Medium Ultimatum | James Shelley

<https://jamesshelley.com/2017/12/22/laniers-social-medium-ultimatum/>

- Host: [jamesshelley.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/jamesshelley.com/)
- Saved: December 29, 2017 (2017-12-29T20:30:23Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1868ebda87b4/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1868ebda87b4.json

## What Jamie wrote

I love this call out from [Jaron Lanier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier):

> People have to take responsibility to become literate in a new way if they are going to use the technology at all. So if you just can’t find it in yourselves to delete all your social media accounts, then you must take it upon yourself to really learn how it works. Learn how the addiction cycle works. Learn how the manipulation works. Become aware of it.

We have to become much smarter customers and users of these services.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT34: Weekly Thing for December 30, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/34/), Links 📌

## Same host

- [Farewell Social Media | James Shelley](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bf87a0768b45/) (jamesshelley.com, April 10, 2018)
- [Not getting angry about issues that make me angry – James Shelley](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6e79e9e69a2a/) (jamesshelley.com, April 25, 2018)
- [Facebook has nothing to do with friendship —James Shelley](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3749cee058ca/) (jamesshelley.com, July 18, 2018)
- [Uncertainty, as mantra | Curious Public](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/63a2a6349b5e/) (jamesshelley.com, May 21, 2020)

## Saved the same week

- [How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly ~ Stephen Downes](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9f47b4c6294b/) (downes.ca, December 29, 2017)
- [One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time | Smash Company](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f708dff520de/) (smashcompany.com, December 29, 2017)
- [One Year with Apple AirPods | Beardy Guy Musings](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ff58e8ecb53e/) (beardyguycreative.com, December 29, 2017)
- [Daring Fireball: The iPhone X](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/714fb56bb9e8/) (daringfireball.net, December 29, 2017)
- [OpenEvents](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8d6bf7846cfe/) (openevents.io, December 29, 2017)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://jamesshelley.com/2017/12/22/laniers-social-medium-ultimatum/