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|summary=The book's a little bland at times, but the concept is a fascinating one that drives the story forward at a lively pace.
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"It's 1996 and Emma has just got a brand new computer and when her friend Josh gives her a free AOL CD he got in the mail, she looks forward to having an internet connection. However, she gets a lot more than she bargained for when the CD inexplicably gives her access to a website that appears to show her snippets of what is going on in her life, and that of her friends and family fifteen years into the future. The website's name? You guessed it: Facebook.
The concept is a brilliant one, and the authors handle it really well. Facebook is a massive multimedia social networking site and the authors don't forget about this; Emma and Josh find that they can view photos posted by past versions of themselves and discover what their friends are up to in the future. They are particularly interested in that little section in the profile page for relationship status, as well as the children they will have and their future jobs. Once the pair get over their initial disbelief, everything becomes much more interesting, and frightening, as they realise that the future they see isn't set in stone, but is constantly being updated according to how they are living their lives right now. Upon realising that she wouldn't be happy in the future and her husband would cheat on her, Emma's determination to never get together with her future husband in the present, has a massive effect on her Facebook page, with her relationship status, her children and her status updates all undergoing shifts.