Eric Mack of PC World calms the fears of those worried about the wouldn’t-have-been Facebook apocalypse:

Reports are swirling that the hacktivist group Anonymous plans to “destroy” Facebook on Nov. 5, but something seems a little fishy about the claims.

First off, there’s the video announcing the operation … which sports the same logo and robotic voice as previous Anonymous video releases, but the production value overall is far lower than others from the group. It was posted on YouTube almost a month ago under a new account, “FacebookOP,” and seems to have languished there without receiving much attention from the press or Anonymous’ own promotional outlets until reports in German and Spanish-language media picked up the story this week.

…while the total annihilation of Facebook may be a far-fetched anarchic hacker’s fantasy, accessing and making sense of its immense database of personal user information could be a more realistic hacker’s holy grail, and something to give all of us pause.