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Ctrl, Alt; Delete: How I Grew Up Online Paperback – 7 July 2016
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Emma Gannon was born in 1989, the year the World Wide Web was conceived, so she’s literally grown up alongside the Internet. There’ve been late night chat room experiments, sexting from a Nokia and dubious webcam exchanges. And let’s not forget catfishing, MSN, digital friendships and #feminism. She was basically social networking way before it was a thing – and she’s even made a successful career from it.
Ctrl Alt Delete is Emma’s painfully funny and timely memoir, in which she aims to bring a little hope to anybody who has played out a significant part of their life online. Her confessions, revelations and honesty may even make you log off social media (at least for an hour).
- ISBN-109781785032721
- ISBN-13978-1785032721
- PublisherEbury Press
- Publication date7 July 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.24 x 2.03 x 23.11 cm
- Print length272 pages
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A must read! ― Zoella (Zoe Sugg)
About the Author
Emma Gannon is an award-winning blogger, writer, podcaster and digital marketer.
She has written for numerous media outlets, including The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Stylist, Grazia, Independent, Thought Catalog, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Hello Giggles and Time Out. She is the former social media editor at The Debrief and British GLAMOUR.
She founded a popular culture blog in 2010, which can be found at emmagannon.co.uk, and was nominated for a Cosmopolitan Award in 2012 and won Highly Commended in the Young Person's Recognition at the 2015 National Blog Awards. Her blog newsletter has been named a "must-follow" by Harper's Bazaar, The Debrief and Grazia.
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Emma has spoken on Sky News, at Social Media Week London, Facebook's Marketing Conference, the Turkish Blog Awards, Cheltenham Literary Festival and is a regular guest lecturer at the Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design about the power of social media.
Most recently, Emma's podcast 'Ctrl Alt Delete' hit number 16 in the iTunes charts on its first week of release and features guests such as Elizabeth Gilbert and Zoella.
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- Publisher : Ebury Press (7 July 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781785032721
- ISBN-13 : 978-1785032721
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.03 x 23.11 cm
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Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author. She has written seven books to date, most recently The Success Myth, OLIVE and A Year of Nothing. Her second novel, TABLE FOR ONE, will be published by Harper Collins in 2025.
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Customers find the book witty and entertaining. They describe it as an easy read with candid, relatable stories. The author's writing style is described as sharp and breezy. Readers appreciate the honest and fresh accounts that are relatable. Overall, they find the book educational and a quick read about internet culture for young people.
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Customers enjoy the book's humor. They find the writing style witty and sharp, making it impossible to put down. The memoir is relatable and makes readers laugh and cringe in equal measure.
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"...It’s more breezy than thoughtful, perhaps in part because she’s more used to blogging, but as a quick read about internet culture for young people,..." Read more
"...the internet plays in her working life Ctrl Alt Delete is a smart, funny and accessible memoir. A must read for social media lovers!..." Read more
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Customers find the book engaging and honest. They say it's a must-read for social media enthusiasts and a great read for teens growing up. Readers also mention it's therapeutic and inspiring.
"...It was so therapeutic too, to read about someone who was a teenager when you were, and hear about all the stupid things we all did, and then see her..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2016How else can I say it, the book is everything I hoped and knew it would be - it's funny and brave and honest and so enjoyable. I rarely have the experience where reading something actually makes me happier but here I was and Emma's book was a joy to read. It was so therapeutic too, to read about someone who was a teenager when you were, and hear about all the stupid things we all did, and then see her leave them behind so easily and fit so seamlessly into this adult life - I think young women especially feel like they will be the person they were as a teenager, the mess, and the mistakes, forever. It's nice to read something that confirms in fact you are allowed to change and grow and laugh about it.
Recommend it to everyone - but especially keep a copy for the teenagers in your life when they're having that day when they're cringing because of THAT photo on social media. We all did stupid things, and we're all gonna be alright.
Absolutely fantastic, will re-read before the end of the year, couldn't recommend it highly enough.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2017Emma Gannon is part of that strange new generation who make a living from the internet, whose blogging about the everyday has led to writing and journalism and speaking engagements and who applauds the entrepreneurial spirit of vloggers and other creator/influencer types.
She’s only a couple of years younger than me but the world she describes varies from familiar to terrifyingly alien. In the first two of her series of essays about her relationship with the internet, she depicts the stresses of MSN conversations and selecting the perfect profile picture – not just for strangers but for people at school, for friends-of-friends, for people you know – as well as the thoroughly unpleasant experience of having private messages to a boy shared publicly. And all this before she turns fifteen.
Gannon is perfectly pitched as the person to illustrate how earlier online communications paved the way for the tangled and problematic mess of social media today (even though she is very much a fan of it) – just on the cusp of that point where it was the norm for online identities to be linked to your real-world ones, rather than being completely separate.
As she grows up ‘with’ various different social networks, she emphasises the power there is in staying on top of new trends and new apps – something which sounds completely exhausting, but seems to be what she loves. She also addresses the trickiness of discussing issues online, especially feminism. It’s more breezy than thoughtful, perhaps in part because she’s more used to blogging, but as a quick read about internet culture for young people, it works.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2016I don't remember exactly when I first came across Emma Gannon's blog, Girl Lost In The City but I know I spent ages reading back through every post.
When she announced she was writing a book about her experience of growing up online I pre-ordered it as soon I could.
I read it in one sitting. From discovering chatrooms in her early teens, to thoughts on internet porn, being a social media addict and the role the internet plays in her working life Ctrl Alt Delete is a smart, funny and accessible memoir. A must read for social media lovers!
Stand out quotes include:
"If I were to give Virginia Woolf's quote a little millennial update I'd say 'a woman must have money and an online space of her own'."
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"We are so starved of sexual content written for women by women that millions went to the cinema to see Jamie Dornan spank someone and give them an iPad in return. We're not asking for much, here."
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2016When you got home from school, would you always sign into MSN and spend the rest of the evening speaking to people you've spent the whole day with? Would you set your personal message to show what music you were listening to and then only listen to 'cool' songs to make you look edgy? I can safely imagine that most of us did these things, us 'millennials', the ones who grew up with the internet. MSN has since died a sad death and it's all about the Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Twitter, and the million other ways we can speak to each other, non-stop. If talking about the internet and reminiscing about your embarrassing teenage years are two of your favourite things to do, this is the book for you. Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online is a more concentrated, focused version of Emma's blog, taking us through her life so far and the internet milestones she has faced, including (as mentioned before) MSN, text sex, catfishing, online dating, trolling, bulling, and careers. I am incredibly grateful that this book exists as I feel it validates the amount of time I spend musing about the internet and thinking about how much it has affected my life (in good ways and bad). Emma's opinions are balanced. She's not 100% pro-internet-all-the-time and she's not 100% anti-tell-everyone-everything-about-your-life. She shines as an example of someone who is 'doing internet' right, after giving us many examples of when she has done the internet 'wrong'. I didn't feel when reading this that it was supposed to be a slap-on-the-wrist morality tale for millennials to learn that they're doing something wrong, but a confession that now the internet is such a force in our lives, naturally things are going to go wrong for us. There are also so many things that can go right. If this book sounds interesting to you, pick up a copy. If you're nearly there but not quite convinced, listen to a few episodes of her accompanying podcast. It's quick, fun, and a good kick up the backside when you're having an unproductive day.
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- Cole NemethReviewed in Canada on 7 August 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Love Emma Gannon, and this book was such a fun read! I could relate to much!
One person found this helpfulReport - Amazon CustomerReviewed in Germany on 27 September 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars An account of life online for all ages!
Reading about Emma Gannon's life online, including successes and mishaps in all honesty, was like listening to a friend or a sister where you laugh out loud, exclaim "me too!" and "I can't believe that happened!" in turns. As a 20 year old who was too young for MSN and myspace reading about these experiences was interesting and a bit of a "history lesson" and as someone working towards an online career this was an inspiring read with many mental do & don't notes. I recommend this read for all ages: Teenagers as a hilarious how-to guide to life online, twenty-somethings for #relateable moments and to the older generation who doesn't quite get what we're on about all the time.