The Little Black Book of Social Media (The Little Black Books)

, #2

by

eBook, 147 pages

English language

Published by Byline Books.

ASIN:
B0C1HSFFTK
(1 review)

How much data does Facebook really have on me? What is a cookie on the Internet? Is my Amazon Alexa listening to me? Why can’t I seem to stop scrolling endlessly down my Instagram feed? Did social media really help cause an attempted coup in the United States?

How did we go from short, 140-character tweets to attempted coups in less than two decades? How much data does Facebook really have on me? Is my Amazon Alexa listening to me? The Little Black Book of Social Media demystifies these seemingly complex topics to help you understand how our very way of life is under threat and what you can do about it before it’s too late.

Powered by your personal data, social media has transformed our way of life, from how we get information, meet people and create increasingly siloed communities. This has had a profound impact on …

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reviewed The Little Black Book of Social Media (The Little Black Books) by Kyle Taylor (The Little Black Books, #2)

Not much there there

This reads a lot like a cheaper version of Jaron Lanier's book on why you should leave social media. The title is misleading. It's a rehash of argument against social media: they steal your data, they push people to extremism, etc. If you have read anything about social media in the past few years, there's nothing new here.