The Bluffer's Guide to Social Media (Bluffer's Guides) - Softcover

Boniface, Susie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909937401 ISBN 13: 9781909937406

Publisher: Bluffer's, 2016

Synopsis

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of social media. Know what to say, what not to say, what to post, what not to post, and what excuses to make if you don't know the difference between a tweet and a dweet, or even a retweet (which, any tweeple worth their salt will know is always called an RT). Never again confuse a LOL with an ROFL, a selfie with a shelfie, or Godwin's Law with the Streisand Effect. Bask in the admiration of your fellow social media aficionados as you pronounce confidently on the chances of Facebook going the way of Friends Reunited and Bebo, and why MySpace could be the Casio keyboard of the 21st century. Above all don't hold back when it comes to saying what you really think of trolls, pointing out that there has never yet been one who had a healthy mental attitude, a steady job and the requisite intelligence to write anything worth reading. Do ask: What's the point of Tumblr? Don't say: I've got this great idea for a blog on cats that look like biscuits.

About this title

Review:

'Read this brilliantly insightful guide and you'll never fear the notification button again' --Kay Burley, Sky News presenter

'If social media has you running around like a headless chicken, you need a fox, and vixens don't come much sharper, funnier or more acerbic than La Boniface. Bamboozled by Bebo? Fazed by Facebook? Twitter makes you feel like a tw@? Then this is indispensable.' --Rufus Hound, comedian

'If you think social media antisocial, if Twitter makes you bitter, if you're just not pinterested, think again. This little book is the perfect guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of our brave new world.' --Samuel West, actor

About the Author:

Susie Boniface is a writer and journalist who tripped over social media while writing an award-winning anonymous blog under the pseudonym Fleet Street Fox. She now writes a regular column under that name for the Mirror but is no longer quite so anonymous. She has worked all over Fleet Street as both staff and freelance reporter news agencies, tabloids, broadsheets, daily and Sunday papers. She says she gets more readers these days online, thanks largely to Twitter and Facebook. Recently she wrote a book entitled' The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox', about the sex and scandals the newspapers don't report. It was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as, 'the first book I've read that starts at 90mph and speeds up.' When she's not writing, Susie lectures in journalism at several universities and tells anyone who will listen that using social media is just like going to the pub. She's a big fan of Bluffer's Guides® because they usually turn out to be right.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bluffer's
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909937401
• ISBN 13: 9781909937406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132