The Circle - Dave Eggers

I read lots of good things about this book. Even before i knew the number of pages , I decided to read it in one sitting.  I do 'one-sitting' reading now and then just to refresh the slow reading books.  After reading the book I had a horrible night. I kept on thinking about the possibilities of the world portrayed by Eggers. And i have so many questions :

1) Will an IT company(The Circle) rule the world - meaning everything through them , including voting in near future? Will people allow something like that to happen?

2)The Circle makes mandatory for the people to have an Circle account and ties them down by integrating their credit cards , Tax etc.. with single password. Is this possible? may be possible  but the programmer in me says it makes easy for the hacker to break in and takes everything. But the author thinks other way around "“the era of false identities, identity theft, multiple user names, complicated passwords and payment systems was over.” Seriously ??

 “A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect. And that’s what we want to be: perfect.”

The Circle is a mix of "Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest ,Paypal and everything social" .

This is a story of Mae Holland ,college graduate who lands a job (Customer Experience(CE)) at The Circle, an ground breaking and innovative IT company. The circle was founded by three , called 'Three Wiseman'.  It all started with "Unified Operating System" which allows the user to do everything with one account - TruYou.  But the company do not want to stop there.  Mae Holland suggests an idea for making Circle account compulsory for all the people which allows the Circle to control (?) everything .

Most of the time the employers are not talking to each other in person even though they are sitting just next to them . And Mae realised it soon that  the work is focused mainly on digital interactions and she quickly adapted to it. Her life completely changes after she started wearing camera as part of Circle's drive for transparency. Even after loosing her parents (not dead but they are not same as they were) , her ex-boyfriend Mercer, she did not realized the devastating effort of 24x7 sharing(monitoring??!!) of herself as well as others.

"A secret between two friends is an ocean. It's wide and deep and we lose ourselves in it."

There are some similarities between this book and Orwell's 1984- both talks about totalitarianism. In 1984 - Patrol Police and Thought Police and in Circle SeeChange and Clarification. The description of the Circle buildings gives an idea of glorious past and transparent future. Do we need to take 'The Circle' seriously? Yes and No. Yes because our free time is becoming unpaid labour and No because its just impossible in near future.

"ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.
SECRETS ARE LIES.
SHARING IS CARING.
PRIVACY IS THEFT."

The author gives the idea that people are not good  but they become good when others are watching, may be its true but we can not live like that . I felt the same thing as Margaret Atwood -"To live entirely in public is a form of solitary confinement." I truly believe that other than in toilet and sex, one needs private time for oneself to do things which one like.

Good read but lacks clarity..!