Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online

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Bad Influence is a reflection on her career to date, candidly discussing the challenges of being criticised through a phone screen and the empowerment of creating a sense of community with her loyal fanbase. She explores modern-day issues from body image and personal boundaries, to the limitations of online activism – asking the question: can you truly be authentic online? Entering this emerging digital wild west as a young woman - it takes a lot of resilience, tenacity and creativity to make it.

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Her humour and wit comes across and I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Bad Influence' flying through it in a matter of days. As adults, we have “a bit more responsibility to recognise what content may trigger us,” although ultimately, Forbat suggests platforms need “to create simplified ways for us to control what content is being fed to us.

Her ever growing social media presence of over 130,000 are delighted with posts about her fitness journey, her comedy, her sex life, female boundaries, feminism, jewellery, politics, her book club – no topic is off limits to Oenone.

Every point is so well constructed, coloured with personal anecdotes or quotes and references that demonstrate how well read she is. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Join a book club if you need a deadline to get through a book, it’s a great way to make friends and hear how other people make sense of the same reading – as someone who found all books ‘good’, listening to others at book has enlightened how I read and review writing and content in books. Her PhD is looking at migration and psychosis risk and experience using mixed-methods to look at population datasets to explore psychosis risk in migrants and collecting primary qualitative data about migrants experiences of psychosis. it’s such an interesting insight into the author’s life and it’s written in a way that’s fun, fast paced, interesting and in places very vulnerable and emotive.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

She now creates content about books, sustainable fashion, modern day dilemmas, and everything in between, as well as her more recent love of painting.

Her podcast “Adulting” — about all of the things we never got taught in school —- has been downloaded over four million times. Which is why it can feel like reaching for the glass of rosé, or treating yourself to a new top, is a small way of feeling in control of your finances. Had been looking forward to this book all summer and was so happy it arrived just before I left for my beach holiday. Written with wit, warmth and honesty, this is a candid account of what it really means to be an influencer, from someone still figuring it out: the good, the bad and the instagrammable . From falling into the world of fitness influencing to rebranding herself through a myriad of different hobbies and artistic licences, Forbat is witty, charming and honest in her self-study of being a content creator.