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The Digital Mystique: How the Culture of Connectivity Can Empower Your Life – Online and Off by Sarah Granger



Sarah Granger is a noted author, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. Her work focuses on how the Internet and digital media is changing our lives and our world. Her first solo book, The Digital Mystique shares real-life stories and surprising facts about our lives—both online and off—to shed new and fascinating light on the positive effects of the digital media revolution, showing us how we can personally learn, grow, and thrive by engaging in our digitized world.
While this is Sarah’s first book, she has already written hundreds of articles and blogs, several scripts, and four chapters for collaborative books.

If you think this could be just another book about “digital world”, “social media” or the internet, you might want to read on.
Sarah got herself online at the age of nine, coding at by ten, and subsequently ran a message board at 14.
She got her email address at 17!
Truth be told, I was intrigued by this introduction more than its cover.

The chapters organized in the book:
Connecting Is Just the Beginning
.YOU
Friending Is Trending
Love in the Time of Messaging
The Kids Are Online
The Senior Moment
The Passion of the Web
There’s No Business Like E-Business
Community Is the Key
The Difference a Tweet Makes
What We Leave Behind
A Stitch in Digital Time

This book is particularly useful for non techies as the reader would definitely learn more than the average tech user about the digital world.
The author gave many examples of her personal experience and most topics are from her own account.
By doing that, she is able to show her credibility in the digital world and as such has made the chapters more interesting.
Useful advice can be found, especially for people who have just discovered the web and got into the excitement mode. Readers could relate on how to establish an online identity and about the risk of over-sharing.
Personally, I like the chapters that cover the kids and seniors, especially how they could benefit from the digital technologies as well as its danger.
There is a chapter dedicated for e-business. Being a serial enterpreneur herself, the author is able to give many tips about doing online business the right way.
The book ends with how you could or should leave the world – both online and offline, leaving a legacy to people you know or may not know.
I also like the topic about how people should limit their online activity as to avoid getting into the social addiction trap where fear of missing out is apparent.

Conclusion
All in all, this an educational book as it provides content that have exceeded my expectation.
This book is beneficial for everyone to learn how to leverage the use of the digital world to our advantage and also to avoid the pitfalls of getting too much digital influence into our lives.

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