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The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. -- adapted from jacket
2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...
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The rich digital landscape puts the whole world at our fingertips. THough with this power comes a certain responsibility. A drive to do it right. This isn’t just any marketing book. It’s the only guide you’ll ever need to navigate modern marketing.
In this concise book we cover everything you would ever need to know about social media marketing. We take you right from beginner level to mastery over the entire subject. No experience is required...
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"Learn how to get the most out of social media! We've identified the essential skills you need to stay connected with the people you care about; reconnect with old friends and classmates; and share your life with loved ones near and far. Our crystal-clear instructions respect your smarts but never assume you're an expert. Big, colorful photos on nearly every page make this book incredibly easy to read and use!"--
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"Sadie Robertson Huff dives deep into exploring who we are allowing to influence our daily thoughts and actions. With an excellent grasp of scriptural truths, using current research, surveys, and personal and biblical stories, Sadie draws on her own experience as a social media influencer. This book is perfect for young Christians wondering how they can live a vibrant, bold, and uncompromising life of faith in God by following the Messiah-the ultimate...
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To connect with today's buyer, you need to stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in. The rules of marketing have changed and the key to winning is to use this change to your advantage.
If you've wondered how to get found in Google or why blogs and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are important, Inbound Marketing is the audio book for you. HubSpot founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah give you the tools and...
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"Learn about brand registry, new item creation, best practices, outsourcing service suppliers to maximize time and focus on growing your business not running it. Introducing protocols to maximize your awareness with advertising,manage promotions, generate more verified product reviews and manage store feedback, understand reporting and forecasts, develop vivid A+ content, upload videos, and more. The power sellers and other Amazon experts are using...
9) Dopamine detox: reduce instant gratification, beat social media addition, and stop wasting your life
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Perform a Dopamine Detox the proper way - without feeling drained, deprived, or completely cut off from social media - so you can stop procrastinating, find your focus, and crush your goals! Do you find it impossible to focus? Have you tried numerous time management techniques to help you finish your tasks, but achieved very few results? Do you procrastinate more than you do actual work - and no amount of sheer will, stubbornness, or determination...
11) The follower
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"Instagram-famous triplets Cecily, Amber, and Rudy--the children of home renovation superstars--are ready for a perfect summer. They've just moved into the site of their parents' latest renovation project when they begin to receive chilling messages from someone called The Follower. It soon becomes clear that this anonymous threat is more than a simple Internet troll, and he can't wait to shatter the Cole family's perfect veneer and take back what's...
13) #Murdertrending
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Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.
14) If I disappear
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"When her favorite true-crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught...
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For the last several years teenager CeCe Ross has been in a serious relationship with her girlfriend Silvie, enjoying their career as social media influencers with thousands of fans, posting about fashion and relationship goals, and totally abandoning theliberal politics that were the subjects of her original social media profile; than suddenly in their senior year Silvie breaks up with her, and CeCe meets Josh, a new boy who is not interested in...
16) #MurderFunding
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"Seventeen-year-old Becca auditions for a new, non-lethal reality show featuring Painiacs, hoping to prove that her deceased mother was not Alcatraz 2.0 executioner, Molly Mauler." --
Who Wants to Be a Paniac?, the latest reality TV show, on the hunt for the next big-hit serial killer. No one is actually going to murder anyone, as real as the fake gore and pretend murder may appear-- right? When Becca Martinello's perfectly normal soccer mom dies...
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Girls have always passed notes back and forth. Today, though, this activity happens digitally. The explosion of technology has made smartphones and tablets everyday tools. For many teen girls, social media apps like Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter are the preferred way to share funny stories, glamorous selfies, and lip-synced videos. This up-to-date guide provides all that girls need to know to get started with social media, including everything...
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A 21st-century romantic thriller centered around a relationship that gets taken too far, When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. As he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details to get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession when he quietly and strategically begins to remove every obstacle, and person, between them.
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"Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them." --
Clara is ready to fight back against her abusive father, against the only life she's ever known, and most of all, against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world. When an opportunity arises for Clara to join an international monster-fighting...
20) Connect
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In a social media-centered world, the smart phone has become a cultural rite of passage for kids. But is that rite all wrong? How can this generation of parents blaze a new trail to equip their kids to thrive in an ever-changing digital environment while steering clear of the dangers that lurk nearby? With six kids, Kirk Cameron fully understands this dilemma.
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