![Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life by [Katherine Ormerod]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41R2nEzf1zL._SY346_.jpg)
A real shame.
As somebody who has started the process of removing himself from social media after becoming aware of its dangers, I was incredibly excited to come across this book and hoped to use it as extra motivation and support for weaning myself off my accounts that remain.
Instead I felt attacked and that the author was focusing on an audience of young, left wing, men hating, white hating, woke, 'feminist', women. For me, the book felt like a political manifesto and an opportunity for her to rant against those who are the opposite of her target audience. A good tactic for selling books, not so good if you are a customer, concerned about social media usage, but who doesn't fit into all the categories mentioned previously. Indeed, battling through the book's 36 page introduction, I found that almost every other paragraph would be making a political statement about how it's always women who are the victims, how white men somehow have a privilege or how capitalism is to blame; ironically the very mechanism that has allowed me to fall into the trap of buying this book. The only positive cases that the author gives for social media could have been taken off any left wing manifesto.
Almost every example, discussion or survey result given is from a group of women or group of people in the fashion world. Whilst I understand that the author is a woman and has a background in fashion, it is a real shame that she has not seized the opportunity to connect with a wider audience of people. Instead choosing to use this book as an opportunity to talk about herself and leave people like me, who share her worries about social media, confused as to what we have done wrong. Ironically, this has the potential to damage the self esteem of readers like me; the very thing she is apparently so keen to protect. I guess the self esteem of certain people doesn't matter as much though...
A good read for a champagne socialist, not for many others.
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 637 KB
- Print Length: 258 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1788400623
- Publisher: Cassell; Reprint edition (20 Sept. 2018)
- Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B07D2F92S3
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- Word Wise: Enabled
- Customer reviews: 79 customer ratings
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#134,647 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #36 in Social Networks
- #40 in Digital Media
- #33 in Internet
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