I first encountered Sarah Jeong on Twitter; her tweets were hilarious and insightful. I appreciated

I first encountered Sarah Jeong on Twitter; her tweets were hilarious and insightful. I appreciated her general sense of irreverence. I was pleasantly surprised to find she wrote regularly for Forbes and that she had a book coming out soon.The Internet of Garbage is not a difficult read, but it is informative. It’s a touch more formal than Jeong’s twitter feed, but is never patronizing. Relevant articles are linked in the Kindle version, unobtrusively. It is well researched and is the perfect length for consummation. The internet is plagued with garbage, she tells us. So much energy is expended on making sure that the internet, the book, is consumable and informative.  Spam is filtered away, undesirable Reddit comments are downvoted into near-oblivion, and irritating friends and followers are blocked and muted. Much of the garbage disposal has been optimized. Jeong dives into the history of spam, explaining how it has been, for the most part, tamed, despite once overrunning much of the internet’s ecosystem. Unlike spam, online harassment, generally accepted as another form of unwanted garbage, still lingers, forcing users to cope or leave certain platforms entirely.I’m someone who has cultivated and watched others cultivate multiple online personas. The Internet of Garbage explained many of the underlying processes by which these personas interacted with others online. If you’re interested in learning more about how the systems engineers have built affect the way we communicate online, be sure to check this one out. -- source link

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