Follow Me (novel)
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| Author | Kathleen Barber |
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| Subject | stalking, hacking |
| Genre | mystery |
Publication date | February 2020 |
| ISBN | 9781982101985 |
Follow Me is Kathleen Barber's second novel. Her first novel Are You Sleeping, published in 2017, was adapted into the well reviewed television series Truth Be Told.[1]
Where her first novel revolved around the reactions of people to new evidence found by a podcaster, looking into the case of a man wrongfully convicted of murder, Follow Me revolves around the life of a prolific user of social media, with a large number of followers.[1][2] In an interview on a CBS affiliate Barber said her protagonist learns "We’re Not All Friends Online".
Barber has said that, even though she is a lawyer, prior to the research she did when writing this novel, she had no idea how vulnerable ordinary people were to having their microphones and cameras surreptitiously monitored by simple widely available tools.[3]
On April 27, 2020, Yahoo News published a list of the "Best Books of 2020 (So Far)", that included Follow Me.[4]
References
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Leslie Renken (2020-02-29). "Author Kathleen Barber, a Galesburg native, is promoting her second book". Peoria Journal Star. Peoria. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
Barber's second novel, "Follow Me," is also a psychological thriller which continues an exploration Barber began with her first book — how the internet is affecting interpersonal relations.
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"'We're Not All Friends Online': Kathleen Barber On Simon & Schuster Book 'Follow Me' & Social Media". CBS News. 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
'Audrey who is the main character is kind of a social media influencer. She loves to put herself out there. She's been doing it for so long that she doesn't stop to think about how other people might be consuming the information she's put out there. When somebody starts following her a little too closely and wants to follow her offline, she doesn't even realize it at first. She's so ingrained in doing this and you'll have to read the book to see if she learns anything or not. Social media is such a far cry from when Facebook and MySpace started out. We're not all friends online.'
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Jane Ammeson (2020-03-08). "BOOKS: 'Follow Me' delves into world of hidden cameras". NWI Times. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
The idea for "Follow Me" began when author Kathleen Barber was meandering through the internet, a place she describes as full of unexpected rabbit holes. As a former attorney, who with her husband left high profile jobs as lawyers and traveled the world, Barber was a sucker for killing time by reading quirky legal articles and stories online.
- ^ "The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)". Yahoo News. 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-04-29.