How To Rewrite Facebook

Evan Fleischer
7 min readMar 23, 2018

The problem of Facebook is — in part — a literary problem — not just because it’s been a part of a years-long phenomenon designed to make Faulkner’s sense of place relevant to us once again, but because the solution we can draw from that is perfectly capable of having unique literary DNA thrive within it as well.

Facebook styles itself as a combination of someone’s little black book and the yellow pages. It is a data…

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