> I guess the question for me is, when someone creates a work of fiction where the viewpoint character is an arsehole, are they doing it because they want to say something about unreliable narrators, or are they doing it because they don't have the imagination to write as anyone but themselves, and they are that arsehole?
This particular book is actually an autobiography, if that helps you decide...
I was my understanding that it wasn't fictional. It was based on his real life experiences in Scilicon Valley. If you read the amazon description it says:
> Now, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future. Weighing in on everything from startups and credit derivatives to Big Brother and data tracking, social media monetization and digital “privacy,” García Martínez shares his scathing observations and outrageous antics, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech industry. Chaos Monkeys lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world.
https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure/dp/0062458191
Like personally I don't hate the guy. I'm just saying it's kind of a shitty way of describing / viewing women.
You may want to check out this book. He explains in detail how FB tracks you. He came up with the methodology. It’s a fairly complex algorithm.
probublica?
edit: There's a really good book by a former employee of facebook who ended up getting fired that explained in great detail how the data exchanges worked. Chaos Monkeys is a fantastic read for anyone who is interested in the details of how the black box works. Facebook acts as the single responsible party over all data it buys, and it acts as a walled garden where data can't leave its infrastructure in any meaningful way.
> This is not his opinion, it's a piece of fiction,
You will probably enjoy Chaos Monkeys: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure/dp/0062458191/ref=nodl_
TL;DR, just read Chaos Monkeys.