A review by bleary
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost by Donna Freitas

4.0

A fairly solid compilation of survey data and 1-to-1 interviews with today's college kids about their social media and smartphone usage. It doesn't contain anything particularly revelatory, which is probably why there has been a slightly half-baked sociology theory bolted onto it. "The Happiness Effect" is the idea that social media forces young people to present themselves positively online at all times, which may be true to some degree but isn't vigorously argued here and is entirely absent from some chapters.

Basically, this is a reference work more than anything else, best enjoyed by those who want to read about social media usage in fine detail.