Stealing MySpace
Feb. 25th, 2011 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI finished Stealing MySpace last night. I have a friend who used to work in advertising there, so I have heard Stories. Unfortunately, the author, apparently, has not.
This author, like so many nonfiction writers, has mistaken depth of research for narrative. She goes so far as to quote one of the founder's teenage Usenet posts to build a history of his youth. But the bulk of the book is just talking about corporate deal-making and stock options and blah, blah, blah. The book was also published when MySpace was the king of social networking and Facebook was still an upstart, so it feels like it lacks the most important part of the narrative.
Overall disappointing.
This author, like so many nonfiction writers, has mistaken depth of research for narrative. She goes so far as to quote one of the founder's teenage Usenet posts to build a history of his youth. But the bulk of the book is just talking about corporate deal-making and stock options and blah, blah, blah. The book was also published when MySpace was the king of social networking and Facebook was still an upstart, so it feels like it lacks the most important part of the narrative.
Overall disappointing.