Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

Antisocial Media

How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

2018 • 288 pages

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Listened to this on audio from my library and bought the hardcover to highlight all the awesome information. Author did a great job in the first half of the book really delving into how FB has structured our social interactions with the closest people to us as well as those we haven't spoken to in decades. The biggest takeaway and one the author touches on multiple times in the segmented narrative, is that Zuckerberg's hubris in striving to create a more connected society has accomplished quite the opposite and instead made it easier for us to divide ourselves into FB Groups that only reinforce our thoughts and beliefs. There should be a better way to foster constructive commentary without it being a free-for-all without any consequence or distinction between actual fact and conspiratorial narratives.

January 26, 2021Report this review