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The Dark Side of a Life Online

Social media can be a fantastic tool for making connections and expressing yourself. But what happens when the pervasive and omnipresent existence of online realities go awry? These fictional books are commentaries about endless scrolling, online identities and the lengths some will go for likes.

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  • The existential unravelling of a social media star.
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2021. — FIC LOC
  • It does not take long for Mae's exciting new job at a leading search engine/social media company to turn dystopian.
    Audiobook CD[United States] : Random House, Inc., 2013. — CD FICEgge #01
  • The movie adaptation of Eggers's novel.
    DVDSanta Monica, California : Lionsgate, 2017. — DVD C
  • A follow up to The Circle, with an e-commerce giant added to the mix.
    BookSan Francisco : McSweeney's Books, 2021. — FIC EGG
  • When your sister has a fabulous life on Instagram but in reality happens to murder all of her boyfriends.
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2018] — FICBrai
  • An obsessive stalker follows the Instagram famous narrator in this unsettling thriller.
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2020. — FIC BAR
  • BookNew York : Catapult, [2021] — FICOyle
  • The protagonist, absorbed in an online community, is enticed to take on the virtual identity of a woman she's never meet in real life.
    Book[Toronto] : Bond Street Books, an imprint of Random House of Canada Limited, 2013. — Fic Mog
  • A eerie tale of a social media obsessed culture.
    eBookHarlequin, 2020
  • A social media influencer who will do anything to stay on top.
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company, 2018. — FICAkht
  • In the not so distance future, every person is held accountable for their online identity and trolls, doxxers and hackers are a thing of the past - thanks to a totally legal justice mob called the Hive.
    BookToronto, Ontario : KCP Loft, 2019. — YF LYG