The Asocial Networking

The Asocial Networking | Book Review

I picked up this book randomly from a book sale without intentionally knowing anything about it. I just read the cover description and subject matter and it seem to me a compelling one. I gave every benefit of doubt to the author and was non judgemental towards whatever the author was really trying to convey. And I had pretty much the same experiences and opinions about social media as his, before I read the whole thing.

But it didnt really made me think highly of this text. The author presented some 150 articles on his experiences on social media, particularly Facebook. I find many of them relevant but most of them might be personal to him, but totally irrelevant to me.

I dont know that whether we should spend so much time musing and introspecting on something so trivial and artificial as Facebook, but considering that we spend nearly all of our time on such trivial platform, so why not!! But the essays here do not provide any valuable insight but some random disappointments from the author.

Anyways not everything is bad here. Kumar has good command over the langauge. It has good prose and it is very well edited book. Maybe I was too critical of the book, but the subject matter is so confined and cliched that it becomes hard for anyone who writes about it.

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