It was an interesting read on how Facebook developed into the all-encompassing behemoth it is now - Mark's obsession on being "technical" and making everything "transparent". Lots of anecdotes about the boy kings and personalities who make up Facebook and philosophical musings about real life, friendships, connections, and technology.
The tl;dr version - Facebook may be good for your "social" life, but not your social life.
After five long years with Facebook, Kate had enough of the cult, and sold off her Facebook shares (pre-IPO), and moved to Marfa, Texas to write this book.
The parting paragraph: "I think that this may be the truth of these technologies that we carry around: We film and post and read social media constantly in order to capture something, some exciting moment or feeling or experience that we are afraid to miss, but the things about life that we most want to capture may not be, in the end, capturable. And, perhaps, planning and efficiency themselves, the things that technologies like Facebook want to make easy and constant, are not as easily grasped as we think. Because, in all of our newfound efficiencies, what have we lost? What, like the moment at the Ice Plant when the glass shattered, is too unplanned and ephemeral to predict and capture with our technologies? Should we keep trying, or should we take a breath, and let some things go unshared and unrecorded, realizing that this ineffability may be the essence of life itself?"
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