Status Updates From Extremely Online: The Untol...

This book finally gave some credit to Kylie Jenner for the popularity of Snapchat, but only to mention that its value tanked when she said she no longer used it. Also, approaching the end of the book & she finally mentions race & content creators who aren’t white. So far, it was barely even a page. We’ll see if she brings it up again.

The chapter on Tumblr was unfulfilling. It was extremely surface level and then its decline was blamed on Yahoo! purchasing it, the site never being redesigned, and the incorrect notion that it wasn’t friendly for use on a cellphone. (Tumblr’s simplistic design made it great for using on your phone for a lot of things.)

While I know this book can’t possibly cover every single blog site or social media site that has ever graced the internet, I do find it disappointing that she didn’t cover LiveJournal at all. (I doubt this will be something that comes up later at any great length, as she already covered Tumblr, which came after LJ.)