“[Social media] feels like a protection racket. Your
reputation will be murdered unless you join in this thing that is, in
significant part, about murdering reputations. Why would I want to feed that
machine?” —American novelist Jonathan Franzen quoted in Emma Brockes, “Jonathan Franzen Interview: ‘There is No Way to Make Myself Not Male,'” The
Guardian (U.K.), Aug. 21, 2015Thursday, September 1, 2016
Quote of the Day (Jonathan Franzen, on Social Media as a ‘Protection Racket’)
“[Social media] feels like a protection racket. Your
reputation will be murdered unless you join in this thing that is, in
significant part, about murdering reputations. Why would I want to feed that
machine?” —American novelist Jonathan Franzen quoted in Emma Brockes, “Jonathan Franzen Interview: ‘There is No Way to Make Myself Not Male,'” The
Guardian (U.K.), Aug. 21, 2015
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