Logging Off book review: After the death of her sister, this author wrote a diatribe against social media

TECHNOLOGY

Logging Off

Adele Zeynep Walton

Trapeze, $55

“Why a book,” an intern asked Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg after the launch of her memoir Lean In , “and not something else like another TED Talk?” According to the recent tell-all Careless People , Sandberg claimed books still held a distinct cultural cachet; she also deployed them in photo opportunities with great success.

Following in Sandberg’s footsteps, UK journalist Adele Zeynep Walton has written Logging Off, a personal account of online life, a diatribe against social media – and another book made not to be read so much as posted on Instagram. Walton, born at the very end of the last millennium, is “part of the last generation of children that grew up without smartphones and tablets, but part of the first g