Buy now to get key insights from Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Sample Insights 1) You can live a public life in the media, without social media accounts. Quitting social media is the only way to make a statement against a system in which so many people are trapped. Business follows money, so we who have options have the power and responsibility to make change. 2) There are ten key arguments for why social media should be avoided and how it makes our lives worse, not better.