How to Live With the Internet and Not Let It Run Your Life

by Gabrielle Alexa Noel

This book is a guide to living your life online, offering practical and sanity-saving tips to help you block out distractions and detractors.

Nobody owns the internet, but it can own us.

Between updates from our exes and half-hearted flirtations, abuse from trolls and doomscrolling, it’s easy to get sucked in and much harder to log off. The internet is addictive, but Gabrielle Alexa Noel has advice to save our mental health and offline relationships from social media and tech monopolies.

Whether it’s sending nudes safely, protecting our data, or helping LGBTQI+ youth thrive, How to Live With the Internet and Not Let It Run Your Life is here to keep us safer, happier, and free to keep sliding into DMs.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

84 pages, Hardcover

First published March 23, 2021

Reviews

[Indira · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like the conclusion says, this book "serves as a starting place for a much longer journey of understanding". If you're only just becoming critical of the internet and our/your usage (and i mean JUST starting), this is a good place to learn the basics. Personally I don't agree with some of the takeaways of the book, but otherwise it was a great lighter read!

[L · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting enough at the beginning, but the second half lost me.

I'm probably not the intended audience and didn't relate too much to what she was saying.

Title is fairly generic so I would have been more interested in topics on how the internet affects social and other types of developments; impacts on home, school, and work life; and generally more in-depth research (granted this is a fairly short book).

[Tobias · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good and compact read with contemporay topics arising from the use of Internet and Social Media. Good overview on topics like media literacy, mental health, relationships, sexuality in the digital world. I especially liked the reference to studies and the coverage of legal issues.

[Jagger · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve loved spending more time reading creatively formatted books this year! I think Noel’s book is really introspective, thoughtful and successfully positions itself as a manual for the ever-changing digital landscape we find ourselves in.

[Layna T · Rating 3 out of 5]

this is really cute and would be a better read for a 14-17 year old teen maybe? It feels like it’s aimed at people who aren’t as familiar with the web or at younger people