"Taylor Lorenz is a technology columnist for The Washington Post's business section covering online culture. Previously, she was a technology reporter for The New York Times business section, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Outside magazine, BuzzFeed, and more. She often appears on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and the BBC. She was a 2019 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a former affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Lorenz was named to Fortune's 40 Under 40 list of leaders in Media and Entertainment in 2020. Adweek included her in their Young Influentials Who Are Shaping Media, Marketing and Tech listing, stating that Lorenz ""contextualizes the internet as we live it."" In 2022, Town & Country magazine named her to their New Creative Vanguards list of a rising generation of creatives, calling her ""The Bob Woodward of the TikTok generation."""
This astute debut from Lorenz, a Washington Post technology columnist, traces the tumultuous history of social media from the early 2000s to the present.... Lorenz accomplishes the difficult feat of wrangling a cogent narrative out of the unruliness of social media, while offering smart insight into how platforms affect their users.... It's a powerful assessment of how logging on has changed the world. * Publishers Weekly * All the cool kids are pre-ordering Lorenz's book. * TechCrunch * An expansive look at how social platforms have radically altered literally every aspect of our lives. * Dazed * The Bob Woodward of the TikTok generation. * Town & Country's 'The New Creative Vanguard' * Lorenz contextualizes the internet as we live it. * Adweek's '2020 Influentials' List *