The Joy, Misery, and Fame Of An Extremely Online Life — With Taylor Lorenz

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Taylor Lorenz is a technology columnist at the Washington Post and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss her book, exploring the tradeoffs of life as an online influencer, and whether people have a choice to pursue power online. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss Lorenz's various controversies, including her view on content moderation, and then close with a discussion of why the internet is less fun than it once was. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	A new book examines the highs and lows of being extremely online, and we're going to talk about it with its author right after this.
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0:28.6	LinkedIn Presents. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:39.2	We're joined today by Taylor Lorenza Tech columnist at The Washington Post, but more importantly, she's the author of Extremely Online, the Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet.
0:48.8	It comes out this week. So now available in stores. We're going to talk all about it. Taylor, welcome to the show.
0:55.1	Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for being here. So fun fact that our listeners
1:00.1	probably do not know is that you and I came up in the same industry right around the same time.
1:05.8	I remember spending time with you at the community manager meetups in New York, maybe 2010, 2011.
1:13.8	When we were all trying to figure out what social media was and we were both in marketing at the time,
1:18.6	we knew something was going on. But it's been quite a journey since then, wouldn't you say?
1:23.3	Yeah, it's actually kind of crazy. Writing this book made me like it was a lot of trips down memory lane and it's crazy that that was like almost 15 years ago.
1:31.9	Right.
1:32.5	And yeah, I mean, the social web back in the day, it went from being this curiosity that people gathered in these meetups were like struggling to explain the return on investment to their management.
1:46.4	And now it's a de facto,
1:48.4	as you put it in your book, it is media now.
1:50.5	Very crazy transformation.
1:51.6	Yeah.
1:55.3	Let's start with the title of your book, extremely online.
1:57.8	Is it good or bad to be extremely online?
2:00.5	I think it can be good or bad.
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