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> Facebook makes fantastic communications tool and gives them away for a whopping $0.

In exchange for your personal data (at levels not known by most people)

> love staying aware of what's going on with my grandparents, old classmates, friends, and family, AND not having to directly pay money for this.

As one becomes more dependant on it for communicating, they can do worse and worse things and it'll be harder and harder to say no.

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>> Facebook makes fantastic communications tool and gives them away for a whopping $0.

In exchange for your personal data (at levels not known by most people)

In the longer term you are not giving up your privacy but your freedom (assuming Facebook becomes dominant middleman for the information) with who you communicate and about what topic.

And subjecting yourself to personally tailored brainwash to buy garbage you don't need all while wasting your time and making yourself unhappy.

> As one becomes more dependant on it for communicating, they can do worse and worse things and it'll be harder and harder to say no.

Yeah, that explains why younger generations care less about data privacy. Already the convenience is hard to beat.

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