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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WMD" data-source="post: 627039" data-attributes="member: 5366">Something to add to the discussion about Summer Wars. In 2009 when it came out the idea that facebook was actively pursuing to replace the internet and become the Oz we see in the film was entirely believable. In 05 when I joined Facebook it was public messages and photos. That's it. By 09 it was groups, games, adverts, DMs, videos. It was doing everything it could to make you spend as much time as possible on its platform and not doing anything else online. Oz is just the ultimate end point of that expansion, a Facebook without competition and left unchecked.Oz is very much a cyberpunk dystopian setting. It looks perfect and ideal but is then shown to have cracks with dangerous societal consequences. The film is very much saying "don't let one social media become all this. It may seem convenient at first but it won't be."</blockquote>