Very believable. So much so, that when I told my husband about this book I was reading, he thought I was describing a new toy on the market. I would not be surprised to see something very similar to this in the store soon. Will not be surprised to find out all the ways this goes bad... exactly as depicted in this book.

Many of us are addicted to social media. Many of us seek some sort of dialog or interaction with the people on the other side of the keyboard. We're "lonely". We're interested in the new and novel not the same old same old. We want to live vicariously. We want to project how perfect our lives seem. Most of the time we are existing in some netherworld, neither here nor there. We're not in the moment, experiencing what is going on around us. We're interacting with nobody and everybody except the people in the room with us.

It's weird. Probably very unhealthy as well. One hundred years from now historians will say "wtf".

We've had, as toys for our son when he was a little boy, both Furby and Tamagochees.

This is a thought provoking book, and it's good, but I was not blown away. It could have used some character development and a little more in the way of plot.