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A review I dreaded writing, and so put it off by several months.
The central thesis of the book is reflected in a song by SOFIA ISELLA: "All of Human Knowledge", which I highly recommend. The author focuses on all that went wrong with putting our lives online: surveillance, immediate gratification, the loss of privacy, the loss of embodiment, fractioned attention, etc... and ties it with the rising rates of mental illness in children and adolescence. As in any book arguing for specific policies, some of the data is cherry-picked and over-extrapolates, but the book still hits some salient points.
Several months later, I still think of the little buzzers in the ears of the children in Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron.
Recommended if you're interested in getting a pulse on the conversation around social media and adolescent mental health. 2.75 stars.
The central thesis of the book is reflected in a song by SOFIA ISELLA: "All of Human Knowledge", which I highly recommend. The author focuses on all that went wrong with putting our lives online: surveillance, immediate gratification, the loss of privacy, the loss of embodiment, fractioned attention, etc... and ties it with the rising rates of mental illness in children and adolescence. As in any book arguing for specific policies, some of the data is cherry-picked and over-extrapolates, but the book still hits some salient points.
Several months later, I still think of the little buzzers in the ears of the children in Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron.
Recommended if you're interested in getting a pulse on the conversation around social media and adolescent mental health. 2.75 stars.