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More Thoughts on Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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A few weeks ago I read Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He makes a reasonable case (obviously with a lot of room to dispute individual points) that social media is “bad” in general and a source of concern. Last I checked, no one uses Google Plus.

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Why A New Startup Shouldn’t Have a Marketing Budget

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And phrases like “social media marketing&# and “marketing spend&# rarely surface in discussions, and when they do I vomit a little in my mouth. When I think off all of the companies in our portfolio that are growing like crazy, they all spend money on marketing.

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The Miasma

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I saw someone recently describe social media in its current state as a doomsday machine, and I think that’s not far off. I get summaries of what is going on daily through Techmeme’s newsletter, have a set of specific search filters set up in Google Alerts, and scan blogs I’ve subscribed to via Feedly.