Kids, brain implant advertising book

[Kylara]

Hi, this has been bugging me for a while...looking for a book I read a few years ago, wasn't great or groundbreaking or anything, but I could use it for some referencing/bibliography for an essay I'm working on...

OK: so, it's relatively new, I'd say last decade probably, not very long, aimed at kids/teens.

It's about brain implants and how they allow you to surf the net, chat to one another and purchase stuff. They also keep a track of everything that you have looked at, bought and used.

The MC meets a girl who had her implants in when she was older than you are supposed to get them in (she ends up ill because they start to reject her - plot holes I know) and she enjoys looking at loads of random stuff, buying random stuff, searching for random stuff on the net so that her consumer profile doesn't link with any major corporations or brands, they have a name for this but I can't remember. Anyway because of this, none of the major corps. will pay for her treatment (because she shows no brand loyalty).

The MC doesn't really get too attached to her, but she does cause him to actually think about stuff for a bit.

Think it has a pretty short title, and that's about it. It's not particularly brilliant, but I want the consumer brand loyalty etc stuff for an essay I'm going to write, and I can't for the life of me remember what it's called.

I'll keep googling, but if you guys know what it is that would be a massive help!

Thanks

 

[erinsbooks]

I'm pretty sure you're looking for Feed, by M.T. Anderson. Amazon's synopsis has it as: Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires