 Valleywag commenter Fidel on the Roof likes to call Facebook "Fadbook." Harvard graduates Greg Atwan and Evan Lushing, authors of the Facebook Book: a Satirical Companion beg to agree. But Atwan and Lushing might disagree with Fidel on the scale of said fad. "Facebook is huge," they write.
How huge is huge? Facebook is Justin Timberlake performs at your high school big. The iPod's share of the MP3-player market big. The Dalai Lama's preeminence over other lamas big. Atwan and Lushing would say Facebook is a fad in the sense that Friends was a fad in 1990s. Except bigger. More like guitar-based Rock 'n Roll was a fad in the mid-20th century. Or pants, starting sometime in the 15th. Facebook is so big it's a new culture, and therefore deserving of it's own book. It's certainly worth flipping through a copy at the bookstore and admiring Aurora Andrews' illustrations. Us? We'd rather read a book about the struggle to create a Facebook business model or a tale of the company's beginning, full of insider dish. We want to know: who was Jessica Alona and what'd she do to Zuckerberg that made him so angry he had to distract himself by creating Facebook? While it contains no such secret it does present a humorously satirical look at the impact of Facebook on the cultural landscape. See for yourself in the excerpted "Facebook Index" embedded below. Click to expand the image.
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