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The Joy of Being Online All the F*cking Time

The Art of Losing Your Mind (Literally)
By Jennifer McCartney
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The Joy of Being Online All the F*cking Time by Jennifer McCartney celebrates our immersion in digital life. Rather than urging readers to disconnect, McCartney embraces phones, tablets, laptops, and every screen available, highlighting how seamlessly we use them for work, family, and leisure. Through wit, tests, and sharp commentary, she champions the joyous ease of online living, capturing a new reality where, as she playfully echoes Descartes, "I scroll, therefore I am."
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This humorous celebration of digital life will appeal to tech-savvy readers, social media enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a lighthearted take on modern screen habits without the usual guilt or lectures.

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From the author of The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place, comes a defence of screen time.

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We're inundated with advice on how to cut back on our screen time and urged instead to embrace nature, human relationships, and being present in the moment. But has anyone actually considered those realities? They sound like a lot of work.

In her new book, The Joy of Being Online All the F*cking Time, Jennifer McCartney gives thanks for phones, iPads, laptops, the menu tablets at Chili's, and all screens everywhere. We can now follow a baby alpaca on a webcam, watch a viral video on TikTok, find an ex on Facebook, measure our pupillary distances, and answer any question without engaging our brains—there's so much to learn, with little to no effort. The Internet practically runs itself!

We use it for work, for family, for research. We're really, really good at being online! And that's something to celebrate. With her usual balance of pithy wisdom, aptitude tests, and hilarious commentary, McCartney embraces our new reality. After all, as Descartes might have said, "I scroll, therefore I am."

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Polly Vernon, The Times, praises Jennifer McCartney's vigorous defence of screen addiction, noting especially her unexpected appreciation for things like the menu tablets at the restaurant chain Chili's, which illustrates McCartney's humorous and relatable approach.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781682684658

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Countryman Press Inc.

Illustration: Line art throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 145.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Jennifer McCartney is the New York Times best-selling author of Cocktails for Drinkers, The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place, The Rodent Not Taken, and more. She has written for the Atlantic, Teen Vogue, Curbed, and elsewhere. McCartney lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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