Comment by aleph_minus_one

> But unfortunately, as the success of Facebook and Google have shown, most people really don't care about their privacy.

In particular concerning Facebook:

The very radical stances that people have concerning Facebooks (i.e. both the success of Facebook, and the existence of people who are radically opposed to social media sites) rather shows that both stances are very present in society and the trenches between these stances run deep.