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No Filter: The inside story of how Instagram by Sarah Frier, Sarah Frier

steelcitygator's review

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3.0

A decent overview of Instagram from start up to 2020 election or thereabout. Though it's more a following of the founder than other things going on in IG (it does touch on those other areas) and, therefore, cuts off basically as Systrom and Kreiger dip from Facebook. Overall, I imagine very few will not come away with a new understanding of some part of IG, how it works, why some decisions were made, and similar scenarios.

Really, my biggest gripe, is a problem I've noticed now in several reporters/journalists who switch to do a book on a subject they've covered where it reads like the author tried to write a really long form article or series of articles for each chapter not as, ya know, a book. This is nowhere near the worst example of that syndrome that I've read but it does have that issue which brings it's quality down a bit for me.
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