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Joanne McNeil: Lurking: How a Person Became a User (Hardcover, 2020, MCD) 4 stars

A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of …

Review of 'Lurking: How a Person Became a User' on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

Lovely walk through history (at least of my generation's use of the internet). Ends with some great notes on lurking vs exploiting, and a call for "librarians."

All in all, reading this felt like taking part in a healthy, important conversation. I've the perhaps strange perspective, though, that I don't really use any social media (aside from Goodreads, to obsessively track my book interests, like a really fancy spreadsheet that some IRL-friends have the link to; or sometimes scrolling through Instagram to look at natgeo photographs). So .. the book might not come across as healthy to others that use the web differently than I do - I imagine it would feel a little alarmist.