Added to the list:
"The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life" by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
IMO, very important book because, it adds arguments to the discussion about “the real beef” that people have with social networking services (tried to touch this topic here and more completely here).
The biggest issue with social networks might not be the loss of privacy and depletion of attention, but the “envy spirals” that they cause, that lead to depression and anxiety.
People, are very bad at conscious understanding of the feeling of envy. Often people, feel anger, frustration, irritation without understanding that it is caused by envy. In case of social networking services, they blame social media in all the sins, when in actuality the main issue that they have with social networks is the heighten feeling of envy, that translates into depression, frustration, anxiety.
If this is true and (there are scientific evidences for this), it opens very important discussion whether social media can be fixed by better privacy and notifications controls or it cannot be fixed due to its very nature of providing stage for “showing off”, thus activating envy and triggering “envy spirals”.
Here (see part about UX tools), I show that we can dampen envy spirals by making possible asymmetric responses in social competition. In Validbook Social it is accomplished by using compartmentalized social profiles.