Referred to only as “the Portal,” the internet and its inhabitants swirl around her, her attention snagging now and then on the odd piece of content, which must be processed and engaged with quickly, almost instinctively, before it stops mattering. The novel’s second-person narration follows the protagonist as she experiences social media and the internet as though by osmosis. Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This is one of the ones that successfully circumvents this problem. The last few years have seen a number of books “about the internet,” both fiction and nonfiction, and all have run the risk of becoming irrelevant as soon as smartphone technology changes even slightly, or a new social media platform comes into being.
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