Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is releasing a children’s book describing the dangers of spending too much time online including the passive-aggressive effects of Facebook obsession.
The book titled Dot is scheduled for release on November 5. It is a story of a little girl named Dot who fidgets all the time with her phone. The girl loves technology at an extreme level and has formed a puppy love with her devices. With a little push however, the girl was reminded about the richer side of life which she can see if only she looks up from the screen.
It may sound odd that the sister of an Internet giant would enter the children’s book writing business that encourages people to forget about using their phones and start experiencing the real things that life has to offer. This is the complete opposite of what Facebook is doing to its users which the former needed to create a whole new world of Facebook, attempting perhaps to rename Earth with the FB initials.
Aside from writing the aforementioned children’s book, Randi has also come up with a book for adults aptly titled “Dot Complicated.” Incidentally, it will be released at the same time as Dot.
Dot Complicated targets the adult audience and as Randi described it in her website as “a personal and professional story with a fresh guide to understanding technology and how it influences and informs our lives online and off.”
She can still keep her family relations solid and intact by thinking about the book’s sequel. In the sequel, the young girl Dot is faced with the dilemma of social isolation by her anti-Facebook parents. Her ordeal will then be ended by a ‘super hero’ that will use his magical skills to pull her from the house and help her return to the “FB” planet’s thriving open sharing of personal information.
The book aims to remind people of the dangers of spending too much time online such as social identity, authenticity, and social change.
