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I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that added so significantly to the person she is today. From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early on AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook and Instagram, her essays make something clear: that of us have a more twisted, meaningful, psychological relationship with the internet than we realize or let on. Arriving old in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early on '90s, Jess looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler followers; women who seemed impossibly certain of their sexuality; people who caused computer systems every day within their actual jobs without having to be ridiculed as nerds. It's in large part because of her embrace of an online life that Jess is where she is now, happily committed, with a better half, child, and dog, and earning money of analyzing Internet tendencies and forecasting the future of technology. She bets most people would credit technology for most with their successes, too, if indeed they could only shed the idea that it is as a mind-numbing medication on which we're all overdosing.

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