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1. The Interior Workings of Facebook
   This was an interesting and comprehensive look into the history of Facebook. The author spent three years and had unprecedented access to Marc Zuckerberg and his revolving door team. It ends in 2019. Given what happened last year, author Levy may have to do a follow-up on last year alone. This book covers Facebook’s birth, growth and many growing pains, including buying former competitors, What’s App, Instagram and others. It also shows how blindsided the company was by its misuse of user data that wound up being used by right wing Republicans, that aided Russia and other hackers to influence a US and foreign elections, not to mention becoming a platform for fake news and hate speech. The amount of data collected on users is staggering. Insightful, informative, thought provoking this is an excellent work, ably narrated on audio by Will Dameron. Learn why so many employees left, especially higher ups.

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2. Facebook is bad but book is well written
   So, not a fan of Facebook but wanted to read about Zuckerberg and the business. This book is very well written and researched and it seems Steven has some unbelievable access to people.Zuckerberg is truly gifted. Not only building Facebook but to be smart enough to buy Instagram and WhatsApp is remarkable. Most people are lucky to discover one product in their lifetime, Zuckerberg foresaw many, including oculus.Have a read and see what you think.

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3. I Don’t Like Facebook
   I don’t like Facebook as it’s turned into cute sayings, political digs, and strange videos; but the story of how it came about and the multi-layered challenges the organization has faced is quite interesting and enlightening. I had no idea the scope of their operations or the potential dangers the platform represents. I think it should be a must read for every Facebook user so they know up front how their information is used and at times abused. The author laid out every aspect of the company systematically, the good and the bad. The book was excellently written and when I finished reading I did not know if he was pro or con on the subject.

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4. As Inside Facebook As It Can Get
   I am someone who has never had a facebook account and has never understood why it became so popular and is so important to so many people. If I want to share something with someone, I will email, text or actually call him/her…Anyway, I have always been curious about how Facebook was started (the Social Network movie gives, at best, a cursory background) and its alleged role in influencing opinions and elections and inciting protests, wars, terrorism, etc.This book, written by an editor of Wired is a comprehensive story of how Facebook was started and its development from a dorm room at Harvard to one of the most valuable public companies in the world. The author had access to Mark Zukerberg and other top executives and contains their responses to the difficulties and motives of creating things like the news feed (I fail to understand the attraction -if I want to read the NYT, I will read the NYT -why would I be interested in random rants “published” by agenda driven organizations or groups that literally have no interest in fact checking) and acquiring their competitors. The author also explains enough of the technical requirements that were created in order to fuel facebooks growth for their reader to understand the basic concepts, but spares us the details that would only be of interest to engineers. The book is heavily footnoted, proving that the author is determined to reference every possible source which provided him information. The narrative covers Facebook through its efforts to offer internet access to the underserved, the creation of its flop of a phone, the acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram and the 2016 Cambridge Analytica fiasco. It leaves us with Facebook still struggling with the role of policing/editing its users’ posts that has been thrust upon the company.The reason that I didn’t give the book five stars is that the author clearly feels that Facebook should be responsible for any content that its users post and spends a lot of time criticizing Facebook for not embracing this “duty”.. I happen to feel that facebook users are not journalists and anyone who actually thinks that a post by any entity other than a major newspaper or magazine with the appropriate goals and fact checking staff is in anything other than the post-er or the author’s opinion is too stupid or naive to be worthy of any such protection. I believe this whole issue can be settled by Facebook appending the following warning to its interface, that should pop up every time a user logs on “Warning: Facebook does not verify, edit or otherwise fact check any information in any of the posts you may read on this page. You should assume that any information, other than that posted by a major news publication, is biased, false or otherwise not to be relied upon. Proceed at your own risk.”

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5. This Excellent Book Tells About The Good Of Facebook And The Bad Of Facebook.
   This excellent book tells about the good of Facebook and the bad of Facebook. This book is very detailed about the history of Facebook and the Facebook leaders. In early 2009, Facebook moved to its new 150,000 square feet Headquarters at 1601 California Ave. in Palo Alto, CA. Facebook was mentioned in a third of divorces. The controversial events that Facebook have been involved in within the last several years have resulted in some serious reconsiderations in the minds of the Facebook management and the Facebook users. In order to protect their privacy, some people are taking more precautions than before. Many people prefer the intimacy of communicating one-on-one or communicating with just a few friends. People are more cautious of having a permanent record of what they’ve shared. People increasingly want protected spaces where they could communicate privately.

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6. Difficult to read
   This is as described— a long history of Facebook. I found it difficult to read, but it is thorough and it further confirmed that the company did a terrible job of protecting the privacy of its users. All because of the egos of a few people. Also, this book points out the need for Facebook to be broken up.

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7. Solid Read: fair, harsh, full of insights
   easy 5 star for me, this book was more fair than any other book on FB/big tech that i’ve read. Every other one seems to cast it as the root of all evil, or a universally incredible force for only good. I would bet that this is the recommended read on the first 15 years of FB, 15 years from now

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8. Just read 3 book about social media: 1, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, by Sarah Frier; 2, How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story, by Billy Gallagher; and 3, Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy. All good. This book (the Facebook) is the best of the best.

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9. Boek verkeerd gedrukt. Pagina’s letterlijk verkeerd om. Moet van de pagina’s van rechts naar links lezen, heel irritant. Kan het boek net zo goed weggooien

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10. David Kirkpatrick’s book “The Facebook Effect” helps you to “know” Facebook, whereas Steven Levy’s book “Facebook: The inside story” helps you to “understand” Facebook. Brilliant job by Steven Levy for an unbiased portrait of Facebook leadership, their decision making philosophy, and how the company is managing the downturn. A must-read for everybody who loves or hates Facebook.

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11. Well written and interesting

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12. having worked in the ict industries since 1959, i’m fascinated in the history of the industry.i was astonished how ZUCK a 19 year old with a limited vision for his app could end up a multi billionaire. i cringed as i watched him make huge mistakes yet the use of the product continued to grow. there have been so many errors in the life of facebook yet its used by half the world’s population.a good read told simply and after considerable research into this v interesting company.

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