This is what the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has to say on Facebook:'By the 24rd century,
Facebook had become a sinister Orwellian attempt to control us all.
A select few continued to fight for our freedom and individuality as one by one all things and people they held dear to them were drawn in as slaves to the new world order.
Bleary-eyed they marched, zombie-like to their electronic tabernacles to throw themselves before the alters screaming "I love you America! I love you America...!"
Only
one thing could save them, a month's processing at a secure rebel facility, with only "VisageBook" to keep them company.
"VisageBook"
is the world's first inverse-social networking facility - you start off with everyone on the Galaxy as your "friend" and the winner is the first person to regain their individuality by sending an e-slap (in fact a high-voltage electric shock) to as many contacts in their addressbook, thus symbolizing the termination of
"friendship".
With in excess of 1000 million patients hardwired via implanted rectal electrodes into the network at any one time, the incentive to regain individuality is something of a matter of uttermost urgency...
thus "cured"
our patients
start on a period of supervised probation in small groups, learning to re adjust to verbal communication, special privileges are
rationed out to those show marked improvement, (for example, an
i-phone,
covered in saliva
might be given out for an hour, or for the best behaved, there is the promise of an X-box
that has been chewed by a pack of rabid badgers),
following a few weeks of probation, our patients are issued with new identities and sent out into the solar system to start new lives as painters, craftsmen, philosophers, musicians, artisans.
Most took well to their new identities,
some,
however, just chose to spend the rest of their lives lying on the ground, staring up into space and crying in awe at the wonders of the universe...'
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