My earlier general concern that Google, et al are, in fact, socializing the general population to disregard their privacy rights and concerns appears to have been entirely correct. Your response effectively says that your convenience trumps my privacy rights and concerns, and the fact that you are happy to take Google's word on their never-to-date-audited systems and honor system API is hardly comforting. There is a huge disconnect in my mind between a "thoughtful web" and the willful cooperation at the edge nodes with the centralized servers* of G, FB, etc. and their social agenda.* The value of these centralized corporate databases is entirely derived from the edge-node activity. I find it entirely thoughtless to contribute to a future society that implicitly accepts such widespread (and apparently inescapable) monitoring by unaccountable corporate actors. Had I found it acceptable, I would do my social sharing directly on the centralized corporate server apps, e.g G+. The one exception for me is Twitter Inc., since there is no pretense at privacy on their social network, and the inherent voyeurism of their centralized service does provide he benefit of making unlikely connections without extending, in any meaningful sense, the comparative reach of their centralized monitoring. So if not entirely clear: the social issue at hand is fundamentally about social choice and not attempting to "hide" anything -- I shout at the roof top, as you are fully aware. Thank you for all the effort to create and shepherd this community, and thank you to the community for the interesting and informative interactions. I quite enjoyed it. Given that a "community" is fundamentally implicit of a system of shared affinities, it is quite clear that I am at odds at a fundamental level with the social mores that inform the community of Hubski.com, and there is no longer a basis for my consideration of myself a member of this community. This will be my last posting on Hubski.com with no further exception. (If possible, disable the account for user alpha0.) Ciao!