Almost Friends: The Truth About Parasocial Relationships, Rumors, and the People We Think We Know - Couverture souple

Finch, Waverly

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798192927557

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Almost Friends is the story of what happens when millions of people feel that close to someone who doesn’t know they exist — and what happens when one ambiguous moment, one gesture, one out-of-context clip, turns that closeness into a rumor nobody can stop.

Drawing on real, still-unfolding cases — including a viral couple’s rumor spiral playing out in real time — Waverly Finch traces the psychology of parasocial attachment from its 1950s origins to the algorithms now profiting from your certainty. Along the way: why your brain can’t tell the difference between a stranger and a friend, how internet sleuthing curdles into mob justice, and what it actually costs the people caught in the middle.

This isn’t a book about turning off your phone. It’s a book about noticing the gap between what you feel and what you actually know — and choosing curiosity over certainty when you fill it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798192927557
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg