Let’s be more like Queen Beyoncé online - and keep the rest for ourselves

How should you deal with social media’s constantly increasing demands? Be more like Beyoncé, writes Jenna Wortham.

In Gary Shteyngart’s 2010 novel, Super Sad True Love Story, characters carry around smart devices called äppäräts, which are something like iPhones on meth.

The book is set in the near future. Staten Island is the new Brooklyn, and all the characters use their äppäräts to chat and shop and beam their lives out to the world, nonstop.