Alexandra Petri, in the Washington Post:
Increasingly, we spend our time in places where we are ourselves, among people we know in real life. And this sort of real identification means that you can’t traipse willy-nilly about the lush fields of Internet Things the way you used to.
So far, opinion posing as fact. But it gets worse:
When Facebook wanted to know what I was reading and what I was listening to, I balked but surrendered, as I generally do with Facebook. But we’re losing something.
What kind of attitude is “generally surrendering” supposed to be? Don’t you have a spine? If you don’t want to tell somebody something, don’t do it.
In this special case “we” are “losing something” because of your inconsequence.