Review: Look Up: Social Media and the Addiction No One is Talking About

Look Up: Social Media and the Addiction No One is Talking About by Sonali Acharjee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

[note: I won this book in GoodReads Giveaway and this is my honest review of the book]

This book is about the social media usage and how people from various sphere of the society are getting impacted by it. the book tells how some of them are able to use it wisely but many of them are getting trapped into it and get mentally stressed.

The book starts with author's her own experience with the social media and then how she ended up deactivating her account on Facebook. After that the book takes a particular aspect of the impacts of the social networking site and devotes a chapter around it. each chapter starts with a interview with a person who is kind of affected by that particular aspect and then author dissects it further. Each chapter has a lot of opinions from psychiatrists , doctors and social workers.

The book discusses following and tries to provide solutions to some of them it :
- how children are getting impacted by this.
- how a user with many followers feels compelled to update periodically.
- selfies. some call it national disease of India :) .
- why people show off so much on social networking site ?
- how tier 2 cities are using it ?
- are your uploads to a networking site safe ? is your account safe ?
- Trolls. and how to handle them .
- What is the best way to use the networking sites ?

Two chapters, one about the impact on the kids My Facebook Family: Growing up online and the other one related trolls When the trolls come marching in made me sad.

The issues that the author has raised, I can see them around me and they are going to become a very big problem in the near future if not handled well by the families, Govts, and society as a whole.

The book is written and structured very well. I also liked the author's writing styles. It kept me glued to the book.

I rate this book 5/5.

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