[forgottenpaswrd]

It is creepy to have a company know:

Your sexual habits. Haw many partners you have , how, where, when you have sex with them. Facebook and google log your mobile phone GPS coords.

Your political views.

What your friends thing about you better than you do(They control and store all of their private communications, including phone calls with Skype or Whasapp).

All your family and friends experiences and meetings.

Then they store this info and give it to the powerful companies and governments on demand, like we know via Snowden . For me it is creepy as hell.

[biff]

I don't disagree at all.

If Facebook puts itself to be in this position without possibility of opting out, that is what I hope would trigger people to seek an ethical competitor. And, similarly, that is what I hope would occur to them would be for consumers in aggregate to be an intolerable consequence of forcing on their customers Facebook's ability (and anybody's who could subpoena Facebook) to be privy to this sort of personal information.

I won't buy one of these if it can't be operated without a phone home. I don't mind sacrificing a bit of resolution or refresh rate with a competitor if the alternative is what you say. My hope is that Facebook recognizes that there is a significant market share they'd miss out on if they pushed that point... and, more importantly, that there would actually be a significant market share that they'd miss out on if they pushed that point.