Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Facebook Bureau

This past weekend, I saw the film The Adjustment Bureau. It's an entertaining movie ? not great, but sort of fun and interesting. The plot (and I'm not giving anything away that the trailer doesn't) involves a man who stumbles upon a shocking reality: he's not in control of his destiny. Instead, there's actually a secret group, the Adjustment Bureau, that runs the show behind the scenes. The story is actually a somewhat rehashed one in movie lore (The Matrix, Dark City, etc). And it's even older in the science fiction realm (this one is loosely based on a short story by Philip K. Dick).�But reading over the blogosphere the past couple of days, I feel like I'm still watching the movie. It's as if some people on the web�truly believe that Facebook is this Adjustment Bureau.�Increasingly, they control the network, and thus, our lives, and maybe even our fate. So while we're all having this�discussion�about Facebook Comments, let's be clear what this is really about: Facebook. It has very little to do with the actual commenting side of things. That's becoming more and more apparent.

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