'It's spot on': Facebook worker sees parallels with The Circle

The Circle envisions an omnipotent social media platform whose quest for tech utopia turns sour. Sound familiar?

Mark Zuckerberg ate two brats in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend, "basically inhal[ing]" the first before remembering that the entire reason he was in Madison eating brats in the first place was to memorialize the event with photographs. So he ordered another, and posed for the pic.

That the Facebook founder and CEO's latest trip through the heartland occurred on the weekend that the techno-dystopian thriller The Circle was released provided a helpful comparison between the menace of an endlessly rapacious social network as imagined in 2013, and the much more alarming reality of an endlessly rapacious social network in 2017.