{"id":8487,"date":"2018-06-29T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2018-06-29T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:45:20","slug":"the-problem-with-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=8487","title":{"rendered":"The problem with Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/on-your-mind.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8493\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/on-your-mind.jpeg?resize=625%2C102&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/on-your-mind.jpeg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/on-your-mind.jpeg?resize=300%2C49&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/on-your-mind.jpeg?resize=624%2C101&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/is-facebook-the-problem-with-facebook-or-is-it-us\/2018\/06\/28\/5949992e-5939-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.04dcc4d92f44\">review<\/a> of two new books that offer critical assessments of Facebook and other social networks:\u00a0Siva Vaidhyanathan&#8217;s <em>Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy<\/em> and Jaron Lanier&#8217;s <em>Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now<\/em>. It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only thing worse than being on Facebook is not being on Facebook. That&#8217;s the one clear conclusion we can draw from the recent controversies surrounding the world&#8217;s favorite social network.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the privacy violations, despite the spewing of lies and insults, despite the blistering criticism from politicians and the press, Facebook continues to suck up an inordinate amount of humanity&#8217;s time and attention. The company&#8217;s latest financial report, released after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the #DeleteFacebook uprising, showed that the service attracted millions of new members during the year&#8217;s first quarter, and its ad sales soared. Facebook has become our Best Frenemy Forever.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Antisocial Media<\/em>, University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan gives a full and rigorous accounting of Facebook&#8217;s sins. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/is-facebook-the-problem-with-facebook-or-is-it-us\/2018\/06\/28\/5949992e-5939-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.04dcc4d92f44\">Read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0Washington Post, I have a review of two new books that offer critical assessments of Facebook and other social networks:\u00a0Siva Vaidhyanathan&#8217;s Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy and Jaron Lanier&#8217;s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. It begins: The only thing worse than being on Facebook is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}