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    Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit

    By Emily Liebert

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    Once upon a time there was an online social network called Facebook, and it brought together people from all over the globe, helping them to reignite romances, launch careers, and even find organ donors. Facebook Fairytales brings to light inspirational "happy endings" stemming from the increasingly popular social-networking site. Author Emily Liebert crafts captivating narratives of real-life stories from interviews with Facebook users who have used the site's many applications to find biological parents, relay messages to loved ones during the Mumbai terrorist attacks, donate money to Chinese orphanages, and try to hunt down a hit-and-run criminal. Readers will relate to these tales and, simultaneously, be charmed by the little spark of magic that sets them apart from your everyday success stories.

    Liebert also interviews and shares the story of Chris Hughes, Facebook cofounder who worked on the Obama new-media campaign, revolutionizing the use of social-networking sites as a political tool. Complete with an introductory interview with Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Fairytales is a collection of tales that will inspire you to seek out your "happily ever after" on the world's most popular social-networking siteand maybe find Prince Charming along the way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse Publishing
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781626367739
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    Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit
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    Emily Liebert

    Emily Liebert is the author of six books and has been featured on the Today show and in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Ladies’ Home Journal, People, The Washington Post, and many more. Emily lives with her husband and their two sons in Connecticut.

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    • 3/5
      I liked the idea of this book but it ended up being a collection of mildly interesting stories and no real hook to pull me in.
    • 4/5
      FACEBOOK FAIRYTALES is a collection of 25 inspiring stories about the miracles that have occurred over Facebook. It’s not difficult to find uplifting tales in a social networking medium that permeates most of our lives, and these stories about organ donation, finding lost people, reuniting separated families, and more are short but sweet tales of the extraordinary in the ordinary. I’m a sucker for inspirational stories, and several within this book definitely had been tearing up and sighing.This book is no Chicken Soup, or Reader’s Digest, however. The writing is fairly basic, and as a result often leans heavily on the naturally emotional power of the story, rather than the narration, to make an impact. The Facebook element was not quite convincingly incorporated into the stories: oftentimes we get colored inserts that are supposed to look like screenshots of one’s Facebook messages, but don’t quite achieve that level of authenticity. For such a heavily story-dependent collection as this, I would’ve liked more relevance and creativity with the design and “Facebook-ness,” instead of merely an average book with inserts of people’s profile pictures and blocks of people’s messages.Even so, FACEBOOK FAIRYTALES would make a delightful gift, and look quite interesting on a coffee table or in a public waiting/resting area. Facebook is something that most of us take for granted, and it is interesting to get a look at the human aspects of this oftentimes impersonal form of communication, to remind us of the frailty and wonder of humanity.