No Filter

Eli reviewed No Filter by Sarah Frier

None

2 stars

I wasn't sure what I expected when I picked up this book. I was left with a meh feeling overall. It praises Instagram, how it came to be in early 2010s, boomed in the market, and how they tried to get a following and user base amongst popular people. No doubt, they have changed the whole social media over the past decade, and the way we interact with companies and famous people overall. It has a sneaky way of selling you products, and all the while making money from advertising, naturally.
It explores in depth about the selling of Instagram to Facebook, and how they were managed separately, with animosity being from Facebook if insta fared any better and was exceeding their productivity as expected.
So, a business book about how Instagram is great, people love it, and how Facebook is monopolising the social media industry, by buying off any …

I wasn't sure what I expected when I picked up this book. I was left with a meh feeling overall. It praises Instagram, how it came to be in early 2010s, boomed in the market, and how they tried to get a following and user base amongst popular people. No doubt, they have changed the whole social media over the past decade, and the way we interact with companies and famous people overall. It has a sneaky way of selling you products, and all the while making money from advertising, naturally.
It explores in depth about the selling of Instagram to Facebook, and how they were managed separately, with animosity being from Facebook if insta fared any better and was exceeding their productivity as expected.
So, a business book about how Instagram is great, people love it, and how Facebook is monopolising the social media industry, by buying off any potential threats to its business.

hunterowens reviewed No Filter by Sarah Frier

the inside, gossip instagram tell all you need

3 stars

honestly, a really wild road through the insnae instagram aquisition, and funamentally, a people centric story that's all about corporate dances, zuckerberg insanity, etc. no big forces, just indiv narrative (fitting for an insta-book?)

Kathleen reviewed No Filter by Sarah Frier

Review of 'No Filter' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I didn’t really feel this was about the inside story of Instagram—it was more 50% cultural impact and 50% Facebook. Truly, I learned more about Zuckerberg and Facebook corporate culture than anything about IG. Interesting all the same as it continues to confirm his creepy megalomaniac status, but not what I wanted to read about. And who edited this book? The comma usage was crazy, sometimes requiring multiple reads of sentences since they were so mutilated by shoddy punctuation.