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Stephanie Burt: Facebook, 10 June 2010
The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook
by Ben Mezrich.
Heinemann, 260 pp., £11.99, July 2009,978 0 434 01955 7 Show More
by Ben Mezrich.
Heinemann, 260 pp., £11.99, July 2009,
The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
by Craig Watkins.
Beacon, 249 pp., £17.50, October 2009,978 0 8070 6193 0 Show More
by Craig Watkins.
Beacon, 249 pp., £17.50, October 2009,
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
by Julia Angwin.
Random House, 371 pp., £17.50, March 2009,978 1 4000 6694 0 Show More
by Julia Angwin.
Random House, 371 pp., £17.50, March 2009,
The Tyranny of Email: The Four Thousand Year Journey to your Inbox
by John Freeman.
Scribner, 244 pp., £17.99, October 2009,978 1 4165 7673 0 Show More
by John Freeman.
Scribner, 244 pp., £17.99, October 2009,
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours
by Hal Niedzviecki.
City Lights, 256 pp., £12, May 2009,978 0 87286 499 3 Show More
by Hal Niedzviecki.
City Lights, 256 pp., £12, May 2009,
“... news; suck away hours; and change how we see ourselves as social beings. If we are to believe Ben Mezrich, none of the people who developed Facebook expected to bring those changes about: they wanted and thought about nothing but money and sex. Mezrich’s book is full of scene-setting and guesswork, and plainly ... ”
