Janelle Randazza

If you have some experience with social networking on the Internet, this book is a mustread to get to know the shadowside of it all. Janelle Randazza wrote this book in 365 short observations about Twitter, Facebook and others, full of oneliners. You could read one each day, but I couldn't stop laughing and reading, and read it all in a few days.

There is some (maybe: a lot of) repetition, but that also adds to the fun of this book. It's like that old joke that returns every time and makes you laugh even harder.

There are a lot of possibilities for the contents of this book:

1. Use it as your mirror: it shows you how childish and silly relationships in social networking can be, and how social networking sites only seem to make it worse.

2. This is good stuff for the creation of a character in a sitcom. I imagine Janelle's remarks to be the running jokes in each episode.

3. If you skip the humor some very strong observations still remain. Every named social networking site (Twitter, Facebook etc.) could take this criticism to heart.… (mehr)