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What happens when your personality is shaped in public? For a generation raised on chat rooms, social feeds, likes, comments, avatars, timelines, screenshots, and endless comparison, the internet was never just a tool. It was a mirror. A stage. A school. A hiding place. A home that never turned the lights off. Raised by the Internet is a deeply personal and culturally timely memoir about growing up online and trying to become real again. Susan S Spark traces the emotional life of a generation that learned to perform before it learned to belong, to curate before it learned to be honest, and to stay connected while quietly becoming lonely. This is not an anti-technology book. It is a book about what happens when digital life enters the most private parts of development: identity, friendship, ambition, attention, memory, desire, self-worth, and love. With warmth, vulnerability, and sharp cultural insight, Spark examines the hidden cost of always being reachable, visible, searchable, and judged. Through intimate reflection and research-informed storytelling, Raised by the Internet explores the uneasy space between the person we become online and the person we are when no one is watching. It asks why so many people feel exhausted by connection, why adulthood can feel emotionally fragmented after years of digital performance, and why the search for authenticity now feels less like nostalgia and more like survival. For readers navigating digital burnout, loneliness, social media fatigue, AI companionship, screen dependence, or the ache of wanting a more present life, this memoir offers recognition, language, and hope. It is a story about the internet. But more than that, it is a story about becoming human again.

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