genre: memoir, tech
I wasn't sure how interested I'd be in this book when I started. I picked it up because of the buzz but I knew I might give up quickly if it wasn't for me. But apparently it WAS for me because I listened to this 13 hour audiobook over the course of a long weekend. The author's deep desire at the beginning of the book to join Facebook - her belief in what it COULD be to what Facebook IS at the end is astonishing. It is about power and complicity and connectivity - it is kind of astonishing how truly wrapped up in global politics this company and its leader have become. Parts of this book genuinely shocked me, I want to believe that people are just BETTER but Sarah has the receipts. This isn't to say that she didn't play her own part, and I appreciate that she talks about her conscience and knowing what's happening but wanting to fix it from the inside. I get that a lot, actually. But in the end - all we have is our own choices. I think exposing all this garbage to the light of day was a brave and important choice. It made me delete the app off my phone, honestly. I feel weirdly complicit and wish there were better alternatives to host the kind of connections that Facebook DOES foster.
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