As I see it i's just part of the elastic bouncing between extremes.
Just 10-15 years ago privacy was a huge issue between parents and their children. People assumed -any- personal information made their kids targets for predators (which isn't necessarily untrue, but that's another discussion).
That view morphed into people blindly shouting personal details of their lives at the Internet.
The natural trend is to become more privacy aware. As more people use the Internet those people are more concerned with who see their content (my addition to the examples is Daughter: O_O I'm pregnant. Mom: WHAT). Sure, people argue to only post what you want everyone to know; however, Facebook is artificially stretching the concept of privacy from blind shouting into radical openness.
This artificial manipulation in one direction causes the opposite side to recoil (perhaps violently) in an attempt to maintain a sort of homeostasis.
That and people don't like having some faceless corporation take control from them.
Just 10-15 years ago privacy was a huge issue between parents and their children. People assumed -any- personal information made their kids targets for predators (which isn't necessarily untrue, but that's another discussion).
That view morphed into people blindly shouting personal details of their lives at the Internet.
The natural trend is to become more privacy aware. As more people use the Internet those people are more concerned with who see their content (my addition to the examples is Daughter: O_O I'm pregnant. Mom: WHAT). Sure, people argue to only post what you want everyone to know; however, Facebook is artificially stretching the concept of privacy from blind shouting into radical openness.
This artificial manipulation in one direction causes the opposite side to recoil (perhaps violently) in an attempt to maintain a sort of homeostasis.
That and people don't like having some faceless corporation take control from them.