Careless People/Sarah Wynn-Williams

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First hand account of Facebook and the people and the decisions and the chaos, misogyny, racism, naïveté.

Watching entitled kids with way too much money and power.

Disturbing.

Thoughts?

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1. Wow, super hot book at library with long line of holds on all formats, book, audio, and ebooks.

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2. Mark tried to get it banned. Made it required reading.

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3. Did not know that but, of course we DO read all the banned books! On my library list.

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4. Some ugly truths: fb rape culture, Myanmar genocide, China human rights violations, etc.

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6. Ok. You don't like the author. What do you

think about the book? Do you have an insider’s take on fb?

I’m always looking for good criticism.

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8. I was a member of a proto burning man artsy group. Smart

techs messing around with art. I was struck how second hand/old hat ideas were applauded as long as there were a few blinking lights.

Someone remarked: it’s because they can talk good.

So ‘sales’ was the point. Not creativity or beauty or…