Social media are like medicine for an imaginary disease, but with real and likely side effects; e.g., addiction, anxiety, anger, depression, self-harm, misinformation, spying, etc. Facebook Meta Platforms, Inc., which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc., exploits its uninformed users for profit. Their platform incentivizes misinformation and disinformation which manipulate people into unprecedented worldwide needless discord. Furthermore, social media are engineered to be highly addictive, and they cause anxiety because other people's looks and lives seem much better than they truly are. Sounds exaggerated? It barely scratches the surface… Check the sources below and stop being a slave to your screen. Choose life: quit Facebook.
| ! | Author | Cred. | Title | w³ | Source | Date | #/119 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zzz! | TikTok in China versus the United States | b📺︎︎ | 60 Minutes | 8-11-2022 | 118 | ||
| zzz! | Meta Facing 8 Lawsuits That Allege Its Addictive Algorithms Harm Young Users | b📚︎ | CNET | 8-6-2022 | 117 | ||
| More than 300 scientists have told Mark Zuckerberg they want access to Meta's internal research on child and teen mental health because it doesn't meet scientific standards | b📚︎ | Business Insider | 7-12-2021 | 116 | |||
| Web developer | “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” | b📚︎ | Craig the Computer Guy | 15-2-2021 | 114 | ||
| Soo Youn | Journalist | 'I get better sleep': the people who quit social media | b📚︎ | The Guardian | 10-2-2021 | 113 | |
| Louis Rossmann | Electronics technician | Zuckerberg MAD that Apple is protecting its customers privacy, Facebook is a joke. | t📺︎ | 31-1-2021 | 112 | ||
| The Evil Economics of Tinder. | b📺︎ | Ordinary Things | 19-10-2020 | 111 | |||
| zzz! | Ledger of Harms. | b📚︎ | Center for Humane Technology | 11-10-2020 | 110 | ||
| zzz! |
Jeff Orlowski; Davis Coombe; Vickie Curtis |
BA Anthropology; BA Film Studies; MFA Cont. Performance |
The Social Dilemma. | b📺︎ | Netflix | 27-8-2020 | 107 |
| Do We Live in a Sick Society? | t📺︎ | Academy of Ideas | 24-6-2020 | 105 | |||
| Timothy Aveni | BA Computer Science | A Facebook software engineer publicly resigned in protest over the social network's “propagation of weaponized hatred”: “Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie.” | b📚︎ | Business Insider | 2-6-2020 | 100 | |
| zzz! | Connected, but at what cost? “Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being relative to controls.” | b📚︎ | ScienceMag (AAAS) | 17-4-2020 | 98 | ||
| Pavel Durov | BA Philology, CEO Telegram, founder VKontakte |
Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous. | b📚︎ | 30-1-2020 | 95 | ||
| Emily Birnbaum | BA English & Sociology; Technology Policy Reporter | Facebook details location tracking after pressure from senators. | b📚︎ | The Hill | 17-12-2019 | 91 | |
| Tristan Harris | BA Computer Science, ex-Google | Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology. | b📚︎ | The New York Times | 5-12-2019 | 90 | |
| Rebecca Jennings | Reporter | Instagram is broken. It also broke us. “Instagram was considered the worst social media network for health and wellbeing, associated with higher levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.” |
b📚︎ | Vox | 2-12-2019 | 88 | |
| zzz! | Sacha Baron Cohen | BA History, comedian | Greatest propaganda machine in history; Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for “final solution”. | t📺︎ | 21-11-2019 | 84 | |
| Pavel Durov | BA Philology, CEO Telegram, founder VKontakte |
This week a new backdoor was quietly found in WhatsApp…unless you are cool with all your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone. | b📚︎ | 20-11-2019 | 82 | ||
| Madison Fischer | Climber | Why Ditching Instagram Earned me the Podium. | b📚︎ | 10-11-2019 | 102 | ||
| Johann Hari | BA Pol. & Soc. science | This could be why you're depressed or anxious. | t📺︎ | TED | 11-10-2019 | 108 | |
| Tim Urban | BA Government | The Story of Us. | b📚︎ | Wait But Why | 26-8-2019 | 94 | |
| zzz! | Tristan Harris; Rashida Richardson; Maggie Stanphill; Stephen Wolfram |
BA Computer Science, ex-Google; Juris Doctor; BA English, Google; PhD Particle Physics |
Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms. | t📺︎ | US senate | 25-6-2019 | 81 |
| Charlie Brooker | Author, screenwriter, critic, etc. | Smithereens. | t📺︎ | Black Mirror | 5-6-2019 | 78 | |
| Roger McNamee; Sam Harris |
M.B.A., early Facebook investor; PhD Neuroscience, philosopher |
The Trouble with Facebook. | s🔊︎ | Making Sense podcast | 27-3-2019 | 76 | |
| Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down. | t📺︎ | Academy of Ideas | 19-3-2019 | 106 | |||
| zzz! | Louis Rossmann | Electronics technician | The disgusting social trend of masking frailty & magnifying virtue. | t📺︎ | 3-3-2019 | 71 | |
| Cal Newport | PhD Computer Science | Digital Minimalism. | t📺︎ | Jordan Harbinger Show | 14-2-2019 | 79 | |
| Cal Newport; Mark Hyman |
PhD Computer Science; Doctor of Medicine |
How Social Media May Be Ruining Your Life. | t📺︎ | 6-2-2019 | 80 | ||
| Tim Verheyden | Journalist | Facebook en ik. | t📺︎ | VRT | 21-1-2019 | 75 | |
| zzz! | Douglas Rushkoff; David McRaney |
PhD New Media; Journalist |
Why we should revolt against the algorithms so we can get back to our essential human messiness. | s🔊︎ | You Are Not So Smart | 19-1-2019 | 96 |
| zzz! | Jonathan Haidt; Joe Rogan |
PhD Psychology; Stand-up comedian |
Social Media is Giving Kids Anxiety. | t📺︎ | Joe Rogan podcast | 7-1-2019 | 77 |
| zzz! | Derek Muller | BSc Engineering Physics | Anti Social Media. | t📺︎ | 3-1-2019 | 69 | |
| How many days since last Facebook scandal? | b📚︎ | 19-12-2018 | 89 | ||||
| The Facebook Dilemma. | t📺︎ | Frontline PBS | 29-10-2018 | 70 | |||
| Rob Whitley | Associate Professor of Psychiatry | Are Dating Apps Damaging Our Mental Health? | t📚︎ | Psychology Today | 18-10-2018 | 109 | |
| Paul Mozur | BA English, East Asian Studies | A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar's Military. | b📚︎ | The New York Times | 15-10-2018 | 101 | |
| Facebook is not a benevolent corporation. | t📺︎ | The Hated One | 1-10-2018 | 92 | |||
| aaa☺︎ | Elon Musk; Joe Rogan |
BA Physics; Stand-up comedian |
People look like they have a much better life than they really do. | t📺︎ | Joe Rogan podcast | 6-9-2018 | 67 |
| Bo Burnham | Stand-up comedian | Self Obsession Is The Norm Today; “Eighth Grade” Q&A. | t📺︎ | VidCon | 9-8-2018 | 66 | |
| Jaron Lanier | Computer scientist | Interview on how social media ruins your life. | t📺︎ | Channel 4 News | 15-6-2018 | 65 | |
| Ramani Durvasula; Andrew Hales |
PhD Clinical Psychology; |
Chatting with an Expert on Narcissism. | t📺︎ | LAHWF | 19-5-2018 | 64 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Arjen Lubach | Comedian, writer, presenter, etc. | Bye bye Facebook. | t📺︎ | Zondag met Lubach | 8-4-2018 | 68 |
| zzz! | Chris Paine | Filmmaker | Do you trust this computer? | t📺︎ | 5-4-2018 | 62 | |
| zzz! | Nicky Case | The wisdom and/or madness of crowds. | a👌︎ | 0-4-2018 | 86 | ||
| It's not you. Phones are designed to be addicting. | t📺︎ | Vox | 23-2-2018 | 52 | |||
| Om Malik | BA Chemistry, technology writer | Face (book) Off - Is Facebook even fun anymore? | s🔊︎ | The Om Show | 17-2-2018 | 51 | |
| zzz! | David Robson | BA Mathematics, Science journalist | An effortless way to improve your memory. Doing literally nothing may be exactly what you need in the age of information overload. | b📚︎ | BBC | 12-02-2018 | 87 |
| How Tech Has Kids Hooked. | t📺︎ | Common Sense Media | 6-2-2018 | 57 | |||
| Megan Knight | Associate Dean | How Facebook has become the world's largest echo chamber. | b📚︎ | The Conversation | 5-2-2018 | 47 | |
| Nellie Bowles | Reporter | Early Facebook and Google employees form coalition to fight what they built. | b📚︎ | The New York Times | 4-2-2018 | 46 | |
| Jennifer D. Shapka | PhD Developmental Psychology | UBC psychologist alarmed by Facebook's new Messenger Kids app. | b📚︎ | University of British Columbia | 4-2-2018 | 45 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Ethan Klein; Hila Klein |
BA writing; BA Engineering and Design |
Facebook is wrong from top to bottom…A voluntary NSA. | t📺︎ | h3h3 | 25-1-2018 | 50 |
| Kate Raynes-Goldie | PhD Internet Studies; BA Philosophy and Semiotics | The secret history of Facebook depression. | b📚︎ | Particle | 22-01-2018 | 83 | |
| Joe Edelman | Philosopher, sociologist | Dear Zuck, re: “Meaningful Interaction and Time Well Spent” | b📚︎ | Medium | 17-1-2018 | 38 | |
| Roger McNamee | M.B.A., early Facebook investor | Facebook Model Is “Parasitic” | t📺︎ | MSNBC | 16-1-2018 | 37 | |
| Jesse Singal | MA Public Affairs | Social Media Is Making Us Dumber. Here's Exhibit A. | b📚︎ | The New York Times | 11-1-2018 | 36 | |
| Tim Verheyden | Journalist | Hoe lang willen we nog slaven van onze smartphone blijven? | s🔊︎ | VRT | 9-1-2018 | 61 | |
| Roger McNamee | M.B.A., early facebook investor | How to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us. | b📚︎ | Washington Monthly | 0-1-2018 | 35 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Eddie Pepitone; Joe Rogan |
Stand-up
comedian; Stand-up comedian |
Social media rabbit hole. | t📺︎ | Joe Rogan podcast | 28-12-2017 | 34 |
| David Ginsberg; Moira Burke |
Director of research; Research scientist at facebook |
Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us? | b📚︎ | 15-12-2017 | 33 | ||
| aaa☺︎ | Randall Munroe | BSc Physics | Odds of getting in a friendship-ending argument. | p📷︎ | xkcd | 15-12-2017 | 32 |
| Chamath Palihapitiya | MSc electrical engineering, venture capitalist | Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society. | b📚︎ | The Verge | 13-11-2017 | 31 | |
| André Staltz | MSc Computer Science | The Web began dying in 2014, here's how. | b📚︎ | 30-10-2017 | 85 | ||
| aaa☺︎ | Matt Stone; Trey Parker |
BA Mathematics & Film; BA music |
Franchise Prequel. | t📺︎ | South Park | 11-10-2017 | 29 |
| zzz! | Søren Dinesen Østergaard | PhD, Doctor of Medicine | Why the use of social media may cause mental disorder. | b📚︎ | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | 21-9-2017 | 60 |
| aaa☺︎ | Anti Social - A Modern Dating Horror Story. | t📺︎ | Comic Relief | 20-9-2017 | 28 | ||
| aaa☺︎ | Matt Stone; Trey Parker |
BA Mathematics & Film; BA Music |
Put It Down. | t📺︎ | South Park | 20-9-2017 | 27 |
| Alain de Botton | MA Philosophy | The Problem With Our Phones. | t📺︎ | The School of Life | 12-9-2017 | 97 | |
| zzz! | How Facebook tracks and manipulates everyone, everything, and everywhere - Delete your Facebook now. | t📺︎ | The Hated One | 9-9-2017 | 93 | ||
| zzz! | Zeynep Tufekci | Associate Professor of Sociology | We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads. | t📺︎ | TED | 0-9-2017 | 39 |
| zzz! | Jean M. Twenge | PhD Psychology | Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? | b📚︎ | The Atlantic | 0-9-2017 | 26 |
| zzz! | Tristan Harris | BA Computer Science, ex-Google | How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day. | t📺︎ | TED | 28-7-2017 | 40 |
| Tristan Harris | BA Computer Science, ex-Google | Social Media's Dark Side: How Facebook and Snapchat Try to Steal Our Self-Worth. | t📺︎ | Big Think | 25-7-2017 | 56 | |
| aaa☺︎ | David Maddox; Malcolm Morrison |
Writer, director; Writer |
Alternative Math. | t📺︎ | IdeaMan Studios | 15-07-2017 | 103 |
| zzz! | Tristan Harris | BA Computer Science, ex-Google | How Your Brain Is Getting Hacked: Facebook, Tinder, Slot Machines. | t📺︎ | Big Think | 4-7-2017 | 55 |
| zzz! | Nicky Case | The Evolution of Trust. Modern media ≈ miscommunication ≈ widespread distrust. | a👌︎ | 0-7-2017 | 30 | ||
| Elle Hunt | BA English Literature, Media Studies | LinkedIn is the worst of social media. Should I delete my account? | b📚︎ | The Guardian | 9-6-2017 | 104 | |
| Zeynep Tufekci; Sam Harris |
Associate Professor of Sociology; PhD Neuroscience, philosopher |
Persuasion and Control. | t📺︎ | Making Sense podcast | 26-5-2017 | 23 | |
| Julian Morgans | Editor | The Secret Ways Social Media Is Built for Addiction. | b📚︎ | Vice | 18-5-2017 | 59 | |
| Darragh Macintyre | Reporter | What Facebook Knows About You. | t📺︎ | BBC Panorama | 8-5-2017 | 44 | |
| The dangers of social media on marriage and family. | b📚︎ | North Central University | 1-5-2017 | 9 | |||
| zzz! | Tristan Harris; Sam Harris |
BA Computer Science, ex-Google; PhD Neuroscience, philosopher |
What is Technology Doing to Us? | t📺︎ | Making Sense podcast | 14-4-2017 | 16 |
| zzz! | Joseph Everett | The Science of Internet Addiction and Brainpower | t📺︎ | What I've Learned | 12-4-2017 | 22 | |
| Peter Greste | Director | Facebook: Cracking the Code (documentary). | t📺︎ | thoughtmaybe | 11-4-2017 | 43 | |
| zzz! | Facebook usage on smartphones and gray matter volume of the nucleus accumbens. | b📚︎ | ScienceDirect | 22-3-2017 | 19 | ||
| Joseph Everett | How the Internet Redesigns your Mind. | t📺︎ | What I've Learned | 9-3-2017 | 21 | ||
| Steven Kotler | MA Creative Writing | How We Chase Dopamine: Porn, Social Media, and Alcohol. | t📺︎ | Big Think | 21-2-2017 | 25 | |
| zzz! | Morten Tromholt | MA Sociology | The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being. | t📚︎ | PubMed | 1-11-2016 | 119 |
| zzz! | Will Schoder | BA History and Theatre | The Attention Economy - How They Addict Us. | t📺︎ | 28-10-2016 | 53 | |
| zzz! | Charlie Brooker | Author, screenwriter, critic, etc. | Nosedive. | t📺︎ | Black Mirror | 21-10-2016 | 6 |
| zzz! | Cal Newport | PhD Computer Science | Quit social media. | t📺︎ | TEDx | 19-9-2016 | 14 |
| Joseph Everett | How the Internet Ruins Productivity (by Design) | t📺︎ | What I've Learned | 17-7-2016 | 20 | ||
| aaa☺︎ | Bo Burnham | Stand-up comedian | Lower Your Expectations / If You Want Love. | t📺︎ | 3-6-2016 | 1 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Bo Burnham | Stand-up comedian | Make Happy: Social Media. | t📺︎ | 3-6-2016 | 3 | |
| Tristan Harris | BA Computer Science, ex-Google | How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist. | b📚︎ | Medium | 18-5-2016 | 17 | |
| Meik Wiking | M.B.A., CEO | The Dark Side of Happiness. | t📺︎ | TEDx | 10-5-2016 | 58 | |
| Brecht Vandenbroucke | Artist | Thin Line. | p📷︎ | 3-5-2016 | 74 | ||
| Brecht Vandenbroucke | Artist | Will any of this matter? | p📷︎ | 14-4-2016 | 73 | ||
| Samia Khan | BA Psychology | Social Media: Too Much of a Good Thing? | t📺︎ | TEDx | 7-11-2015 | 18 | |
| Jakob Gottschau | Director | facebookistan (documentary). | t📺︎ | 0-11-2015 | 41 | ||
| aaa☺︎ | Anthony Jeselnik | Stand-up comedian | Thoughts and Prayers. | t📺︎ | 16-10-2015 | 2 | |
| Honor Whiteman | BA Journalism | Social media: how does it affect our mental health and well-being? | b📚︎ | Medical News Today | 10-6-2015 | 7 | |
| Monica Lewinsky | MA Social Psychology | The price of shame. | t📺︎ | TED | 20-3-2015 | 63 | |
| Kimberly Young | PhD Psychology | What you need to know about internet addiction. | t📺︎ | TEDx | 5-1-2015 | 49 | |
| Alain de Botton | MA Philosophy | Status Anxiety. | t📺︎ | The School of Life | 1-12-2014 | 10 | |
| Reversing the digital attention crisis and realigning technology with humanity's best interests. | b📚︎ | Center for Humane Technology | 1-12-2014 | 54 | |||
| zzz! | Allison Graham | BA Psychology, M.B.A. | How social media makes us unsocial. | t📺︎ | TEDx | 10-11-2014 | 13 |
| aaa☺︎ | Louis C.K. | Stand-up comedian | Nobody cares about videos of your kids on Facebook. | t📺︎ | 13-10-2014 | 12 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Matt Stone; Trey Parker |
BA Mathematics & Film; BA music |
The Hobbit. | t📺︎ | South Park | 11-12-2013 | 115 |
| zzz! | Ethan Kross, et al. | Professor of Psychology | Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults. | b📚︎ | PLOS ONE | 14-8-2013 | 11 |
| Facebook's Emotional health impact. | b📚︎ | Wikipedia | 15-8-2013 | 15 | |||
| Brecht Vandenbroucke | Artist | Music. | p📷︎ | 7-12-2012 | 72 | ||
| AntiFacebook. | b📚︎ | 10-10-2012 | 42 | ||||
| zzz! | Nicholas Carr | Writer | What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. | t📺︎ | 10-9-2012 | 48 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Ron Discovers Google Earth. | t📺︎ | Parks and Recreation | 1-12-2011 | 99 | ||
| Social networking's good and bad impacts on kids. | b📚︎ | American Psychological Association | 7-8-2011 | 8 | |||
| aaa☺︎ | Matt Stone; Trey Parker |
BA Mathematics & Film; BA Music |
You Have 0 Friends. | t📺︎ | South Park | 7-4-2010 | 24 |
| aaa☺︎ | George Carlin | Stand-up comedian | People are fucking boring. | t📺︎ | 29-7-2008 | 4 | |
| aaa☺︎ | Bill Hicks | Stand-up comedian | Advertising and marketing. | t📺︎ | 14-9-1993 | 5 |
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Besides the primary reasons listed above, I strongly oppose marketing and advertising [📺︎]. If something cannot survive without ads and manipulation, then it is redundant and should not exist. Want to help? Quit facebook, spread the word, suggest sources, and definitely use an ad blocker.
I like how it looks. It's fast. It doesn't rely on third parties. It requires zero extra clicks to find what you need. It doesn't use ads or trackers. It's usable on every device. As opposed to most contemporary websites which are bloated with redundant scripts, visual effects, content, or ads that slow everything down.
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