Jaron Lanier

“You’ll see fake accounts in my name. There’s even a supposed @RealJaronLanier on Twitter. But I have no idea who that is. Not me.”
- Argument 3

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@StacyMa44159263 @JamesGandolfi15 @CelesteRiverDa1 That is not enough, think about who you are and who you want to be seen as, and read the book… then delete your account. Have a nice day!

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@JamesGandolfi15 @StacyMa44159263 @CelesteRiverDa1 because of your lack of thinking. You posted something and responded to hate without thinking of the person on the other side of the tweet. This is what Lanier refers to as the BUMMER machine.

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@StacyMa44159263 @CelesteRiverDa1 @JamesGandolfi15 more of an asshole so he deleted the account altogether.
Even when he blogged on the HuffPost he found himself trolling the comments and finding that anger boiling up inside him again.

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@StacyMa44159263 @CelesteRiverDa1 @JamesGandolfi15 Even the real Lanier brings up his own personal stories with early social media saying he fed off fights on the computer trying to score points and be the one who knew the most and won the argument as a result. In order to turn nice he made himself fake nice, this made him even

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@CelesteRiverDa1 @JamesGandolfi15 @StacyMa44159263 Online we are more or less anonymous, we have accounts and profile pictures but we don’t actually see the people we are interacting with, which “obscures individual features and interpersonal differences”. You did not think about the context. You were quick to get defensive.

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@JamesGandolfi15 @StacyMa44159263 @CelesteRiverDa1 this is the problem- social media makes all of its users into assholes, I bet stacy and celeste are wonderful people behind a screen. It changes things. This is turning into a pack, which you my friend found yourself on the wrong side of

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@StacyMa44159263 @JamesGandolfi15 @CelesteRiverDa1 You should read ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now by Lanier, you would really benefit from it.

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@JamesGandolfi15 @StacyMa44159263 @CelesteRiverDa1 Hi I'm not the real Lanier, Lanier wants to be “authentically nice, and certain online designs seem to fight against that with magical force. That's the core reason why I don't have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, what's app, Instagram, Snapchat, or any of the rest”

[Jaron Lanier @notreallylanier]

@StacyMa44159263 @JamesGandolfi15 @CelesteRiverDa1 Cant, you see this simple Twitter post is making all of you into assholes. When you are all most likely not off the internet. What seemed like a harmless post got twisted into a war because of the perception of social media.