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Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks

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This was a thick book to get through. It had an interesting approach to why people should not be on social media but also why they stay but the writing was a little tough in spots.

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Thank you Netgalley for an ARC of this book in reign for my honest opinion.

I enjoy always having a spiritual book on my reading pile especially as something uplifting to read at the end of the day. This book was not quite what I was looking or hoping for. I did not finish it as I found it heavier than what I had anticipated.

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I wanted so badly to like this book. Much of my reading centers on spiritual, transcendence subjects. Living in a time when so many faces are frowning into a tiny flat screen, I felt like this book would help cast a light, show a way forward to embrace the now and be present with omnipresent social networks. Alas, this was not to be. For me, right now, this book is thick, unreadable prose. Maybe it's me. I don't think I'm the reader the writer was looking for. So be it.

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This is a really good book, I could do without the India talk. I do like the Buddha sayings, cause don't all that make sense? This was a really long book however very interesting and thought provoking. This book brings up reasons not to be on social media and also reasons why people do. We all have heard of Catfishing, videos of suicides, police shooting, and what they can do to people that witness these things sometimes by accident. But scarred for life. That social media exploits us and probably sells us. Exploits us in a way that we could get robbed while on vacation because we post it, maybe items in our background pics seem appealing. Exploits us in ways of bullying, relying on likes and comments to make us feel good, build us up. The people who intentional friend request just to check up on ex-lovers and ex-friends, I've done this. I've got mad at my children because they would skip liking something I would put on their wall and they would whine back that it's just fb. I've had people ask me to unfriend someone they didn't like. I find myself thinking well isn't this my fb? The Author is right in so many ways, she made a lot of sense on so many points. One thing that stuck out for me is when you're off social media you seem more happy, but on social media seems to make you angry and have low self worth. It's nice to see what everyone is up to like births, marriages, funny pics and videos. This book is like a self help book and makes you look at social media in a totally different view. I know I will be a lot different in the future on how I post and like. Social media is very intrusive and really opened my eyes to this phenomenon.
Thank you so much to the Author for your honest, eye-openness words in this world that can be selfish, and downright mean. I recommend this book for anyone who is on social media or is thinking about joining.

Thank you Pacific Heart Books and Net Gallery.

Cherie'

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FaceBuddha is a book that explores spirituality in our digital age. It is well written and enlightening.

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