Some creative fiction inspired by the recent update in facebook's page handling...
Use Facebook as Your Page
You now have the flexibility to interact with the other areas of Facebook as a page.
* Get notifications when fans interact with your page or posts
* See activity from the pages you like in your news feed
* Like other pages and feature them on your page
* Make comments as your page on other pagesTo try this new feature, you can click the link here or go to Account above and select Use Facebook as Page.
The year is 20XX (it's closer than you think). The facebook-ization of society has reached tipping point. You are not officially an entity until you have a facebook account. It's like you don't exist otherwise.
you're not an official entity until you've got a PAGE.
if you don't have a page, you're UNDEFINED
all interactions occur through PAGEs. In real life, it's your ID.
People can't communicate with you, at least not easily and securely. Using regular e-mail is like scrawling a note on a piece of paper and tossing it on the wind, hoping it will arrive unmolested at its intended destination. Why bother when you can just pick up the phone and call? Of course Big Brother, Little Brother, and any number of audit organizations will be listening to your call, but at least you know it'll come out the same as it went in.
If you're a human, facebook is your new Identification card. It allows you to interact with governments, businesses and other people. It's what you use to get into the nightclub and verify your age when buying beer. It gets you a discount at the local restaurant and it shows employers your reputation for diligence.
And it remembers everything. Facebook's server farm overtook Google's years ago and supposedly they have more computers running data analysis than all the storage and interfaces combined. The debate over pre-cog actions is just starting to break the public eye. As open-source algorithms begin to predict
Of course, there are celebrity pages. Usually they're just run by a single owner, like
Sometimes they are run by several people.
rogue pages
Pages can take many forms - the most common are businesses and non-commercial organizations ranging from Non-Profits to neighborhoods and families.
Some pages are run by other pages.
Now that they have enabled democratic control (enacted through member surveys with instant runoff voting)
The biologists are all talking about the discovery of the first self-joining multicellular nanites. They apparently found a "beneficially cooperative behavior" that worked with a pretty high correlation, so they just stuck together.
This post was originally left as an unpublished draft. Published as work-in-progress in November 2026 for historical reference.