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Definitely loved Snow Crash. Similar message that everything will be shared/recorded. In The Circle it's a bit more chilling, for me at least, because every person is a 'Gargoyle' that HAS to record and share every thought and emotion and event, and it's all happening in a somewhat boring cyber-corpo near future dystopia, whereas SC was a madcap over the top cyberpunk playground.
Where I'm at in The Circle, employees of the big tech company are expected to share pics of everything they do and comment on everything their coworkers do. Fill out a minimum of 500 survey questions a day on top of their daily work quota. Everyone's work performance is shared for Friendly Competition.
I'd go on, but there'd be spoilers.
So, like you said, definitely not an original idea, just a slightly more current and boringly believable dystopia than rad pizza delivering samurais and viral languages developing on pirated barges floating in trash gyres in the Pacific.