I should be deeply concerned about Facebook -- they've morphed into an uber-entity, a meta-culture, a global force. Recently in a plane I was looking down at all the little houses and in a sort of Harry Lime internal voice I wondered how many were, or were going to become Facebook members. This kind of calculation of course has huge corporate implications. It has large social implications. But I don't care. Why? Because it is now not just "majority", it's no longer moving upward, growing, but entirely ubiquitous.

Ubiquity is barely functional, always complained about (in fact if someone isn't complaining you aren't really ubiquitous). It has impact only in that it is ever-present but since it isn't on an edge, and since it appeals to the lowest common denominator, it's ancillary to what's inspiring.

I worry about Facebook now the way I worry about political and criminal institutions, not the way I worry about cultural trends or individual events.