Table of Contents

Preface
PART ONE - PORTRAITS
1) Marriage Dun Mash Up
2) Avatar
3) For Whom the Bell Doesn't Toll
4) The Book of Truth
5) It's Who You Know
6) Community
7) Time Suck
8) Cultivating FarmVille
9) It Was Just Sex
10) Getting the Word Out
11) Picking BlackBerrys
12) The History Woman
Lagniappe
The Philosophy of Doubles
PART TWO - The Anthropology of Facebook
A) The Invention of Fasbook.
B) The Fame of Facebook.
C) 15 theses on what Facebook might just be.
Glossary and Acknowledgements

About the Author

Daniel Miller isProfessor of Anthropology at University College London.

Reviews

"It is Miller's focus on Trinidad and his beguilingly intimatestyle of writing that makes this work special. Prepare to have yourexpectations confounded." The Age "A very welcome and distinctive contribution to what iscurrently a small body of work on emerging online socialnetworks." LSEPolitics Blog "With social media playing an increasingly dominant role in ourlives, it was about time somebody undertook a serious academicstudy of the way the Facebook phenomenon is changing and shapingbehaviour...Whatever your feelings about the ever-present Facebook,Twitter etc, they are here to stay, so this book is an intriguingguide to as-yet uncharted territory." TheStyle King "Miller has written an insightfuland engaging look at what Facebook has done to Trinidad and, moreintriguingly, what Trinidad is doing to Facebook. For anyone keento understand what human culture is becoming as the internetbecomes its nearly universal vehicle, Tales from Facebook isobligatory reading." Julian Dibbell, contributing editor for Wired magazineand author of My Tiny Life and PlayMoney " Tales from Facebook is agenre-busting tour de force. Miller moves between fascinatingstories of the often unexpected ways Trinidadians (for whom theverb 'to friend' is over a century old) use Facebook tothought-provoking discussions of the broad implications of socialnetworking sites. Readers from a wide range of backgrounds willfind this book an insightful treasure." Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology, Universityof California, Irvine, and author of Coming ofAge in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the VirtuallyHuman