A review by aschwartz184
Fakebook: A True Story. Based on Actual Lies by Dave Cicirelli

2.0

Ugh. Where should I begin? "If it's on the internet, it must be true." That's the premise upon which author Dave Cicirelli bases his social experiment. He uses Facebook to create this fake 'alternate life' for himself where he lives on the road (traveling by foot), meets a fate of indentured servitude on an Amish farm, gets an Amish girl to run away with him....and it just keeps getting more outlandish from there. All of his Facebook friends believe him for much longer than he anticipated, he writes these self-involved 'travel entries' imbued with false platitudes, and gets people IRL (in real life!) to back up his soul-searching minimalist venture. It's all FAKE and people believe that he's really doing this (because there are photos and everything!). But why do we care? What difference does it make that people believe it if it's on Facebook? Anyone with a fair amount of common sense know to question Facebook's credibility as an account of someone's life. Sorry, Dave, but I was bored to tears by such banality.

This is the 4th book in a row that I haven't finished. Hmm.