(Maybe) We asked for this (m.techcrunch.com)

We kinda did, we kept voting in anti-privacy and big-govt dirtbag bureaucrats. Until they're gone, the government will rule all of us instead of the way it should be -> we tell the govt what to do.

We are far from powerless. Facebook - the only valuable thing there are the contacts - they can be rebuild.

A new search engines can arise (we are long overdue anyway, time to reinvent the search is nigh - google has been giving crappier and crappier results for the past few years and is still the best out there)

There are a lot of devices that are still controlled by their owners. I have a lot of non technical people asking about encryption and migration to linux lately (pre scandals).

A lot of people have real IPs that allow them to receive incoming connections and are not forced to ask for port forwarding and nat.

There is always ways to create distributed p2p encrypted global network. And with opencompute there will always be enough free home hardware to back it up.

I positively hate single-signons via FB or Twitter, but it is getting increasingly hard to keep your profiles separate between different social media sites.

And the social and job pressure is mounting - don't use Google Docs? Makes you look old-fashioned or too stubborn. Don't like to share your calendar via Google? People will get mad because you are obstructing their work flow.

So if you don't want to limit your social connections, you practically have to throw your data to the street.

Maybe others asked for it, I didn't. I don't use social media, I vote third-party and always have, I believe in open source, I rarely watch tv or see movies. I dont listen to the radio, I use P2P.