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I’m Nineteen, I Study Computers, and I Grew Up Online: What Teenagers Really Do on the Internet — and What Parents Need to Know
175 pages, Hardcover
Published October 30, 2025
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December 9, 2025
Received a free digital copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Liam makes some good points in this but on the one hand it lacks details that would offer more context to the stories he tells, and on the other it could be reduced to an article instead of a full book.
The writing could do with some editing too. I understand it is a journal but the very short paragraphs and lack of punctuation in places was distracting.
Still an interesting read for both older and younger generations as a way of understanding each other.
Liam makes some good points in this but on the one hand it lacks details that would offer more context to the stories he tells, and on the other it could be reduced to an article instead of a full book.
The writing could do with some editing too. I understand it is a journal but the very short paragraphs and lack of punctuation in places was distracting.
Still an interesting read for both older and younger generations as a way of understanding each other.
November 17, 2025
BooksGoSocial provided an early galley for review.
As a cusp Gen-X, I have spent half my life before the days the Internet took off, and the rest very much connected online. I straddle both worlds. I am also a parent of a cusp Millennial/Gen-Z who leans more towards the former. Like the author, my son very much grew up in the online world. So, I felt it would be good to get an understanding how those of the 21st Century feel about being online-all-the-time.
I appreciated Liam's honesty and viewpoints. As someone who also studied computers, I could appreciate his analogies and viewpoints. Ironically, many of the struggles he relates from his early teen days match those struggles teens have been having for decades (even those of us who grew up fully analog). The Internet just compounds them and puts a different spin on them.
What I would have liked is some more details in spots. He refers to things that change or go darker, but he stops short of giving the specifics. While I appreciate the desire for preserving privacy, it would be easy enough just to give the general gist without naming actual names. That would have helped drive his points home more clearly. The end has a few better examples, though one I did find confusing.
Still, this is definitely an informative "memoir" for older generations to check out.
As a cusp Gen-X, I have spent half my life before the days the Internet took off, and the rest very much connected online. I straddle both worlds. I am also a parent of a cusp Millennial/Gen-Z who leans more towards the former. Like the author, my son very much grew up in the online world. So, I felt it would be good to get an understanding how those of the 21st Century feel about being online-all-the-time.
I appreciated Liam's honesty and viewpoints. As someone who also studied computers, I could appreciate his analogies and viewpoints. Ironically, many of the struggles he relates from his early teen days match those struggles teens have been having for decades (even those of us who grew up fully analog). The Internet just compounds them and puts a different spin on them.
What I would have liked is some more details in spots. He refers to things that change or go darker, but he stops short of giving the specifics. While I appreciate the desire for preserving privacy, it would be easy enough just to give the general gist without naming actual names. That would have helped drive his points home more clearly. The end has a few better examples, though one I did find confusing.
Still, this is definitely an informative "memoir" for older generations to check out.
November 4, 2025
4.5 stars rounded up to 5
November 13, 2025
It was a more serious topic matter than I tought before starting.
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