Contact Great British Speakers today to book ‘Adulting’ podcaster and influencer Oenone Forbat for your next event. But also because I was keen to get a window into the world of influencing through the eyes of someone who has genuinely come of age online. Forbat provides an in-depth example of sharing selective content through her discussion of online activism. I have followed Oenone for a while and always found her hot takes informed, funny and well balanced.

Her podcast Adulting – about all of the things we never got taught in school – has been downloaded over 4 million times. Although it was obvious it was severely affecting my quality of life, it took me a while to make the decision to go ahead with it. As I got older, I started to suffer from vision problems and I found myself having to squint to see things a mere centimetres away from me, I realised things were getting really bad. In this humorous meditation on her digitized life, Oenone chronicles the pits and peaks of coming of age online. Candid throughout, felt like a really honest appraisal of the scene/industry/community told though her own experiences without being verbose.

Forbat confessed that she does not use TikTok; its absence from her phone is an attempt to avoid getting “sucked” into an endless “scroll-hole.

So it's about making the right decisions for you at the time, with an underlying consideration for what the future might hold. Quercus has acquired Bad Influence: Reflections on a Life Lived Online, "a candid account of coming of age on the internet", from Oenone Forbat. 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.minutes a day - Leave your phone outside the bedroom or in a drawer and commit to just ten minutes before you sleep to read before you switch off for the day. Her humour and wit comes across and I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Bad Influence' flying through it in a matter of days. Whilst my siblings were engrossed in the Harry Potter books, I had no greater want than to be outside riding my bike. A movement, not towards reintroducing the colloquialism into our Whatsapp groups or iPhone covers, but a secret mantra we repeat to ourselves each day.