Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

One of the most optimistic books about the Internet I've ever read because it dares to hope for better ... A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read

Zadie Smith

Indispensable. Everyone who wants to understand the digital world, its pitfalls and possibilities should read this book – now

Matthew d'Ancona, author of Post-Truth

A witty and fiercely intelligent attack on the ethics and business model of big tech and a romping read to boot. Lanier is a modern day Luther, calling for a digital reformation and nailing his theses to the door

Tom Hodgkinson, The Idler

A short, snappy, impassioned takedown of the surveillance capitalism operated by the giant Silicon Valley corporations

Financial Times

Everything is here, from status anxiety, to wage degradation, to the death of context … This is Lanier at his best, taking the language of the internet and turning it back on itself

Hugo Rifkind, The Times

An eloquence that is hard to argue against … Every time you log on, you are adding to a fire that is burning your house down

Danny Fortson, Sunday Times

Informed, heartfelt and often entertaining ... a timely reminder that even if we can’t bring ourselves to leave social media altogether, we should always think critically about how it works

Ian Critchley, Sunday Times

In every chapter there is a principle so elegant, so neat, sometimes even so beautiful, that what is billed as straight polemic becomes something much more profound

Zoe Williams, Guardian

A rollicking call to arms

Emerald Street

Ten Arguments is more compelling than the many similar treatises on social media published since 2016 because of Lanier’s intimate knowledge of the private sector

Nina Jankowicz, New Scientist

Powerful ... Lanier's ten arguments are strong and convincing, and become more so as they accumulate

Daily Mail

Written in Lanier’s engaging conversational style… [Ten Arguments] hits all ten nails bang on the head

Jonathan Wilson, Engineering & Technology

[Lanier’s] argument…is a profound one… I heeded his plea and deleted my account

Franklin Foer, Scotsman

Incredibly accessible. The conversational tone makes for light reading, yet it’s also a hard-hitting and well-constructed polemic

Jamie Bartlett, Spectator

This book is very good

James Rebanks

[A] brief and lucid volume

Jennifer Egan author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Guardian