>>3 What you call hostility I call educating people who wont listen otherwise.
Its not a matter of having anything to hide, its a fact that youre willing to give; up personal info to a company that will merely sell it. Your idea of its power is irrelevant. If you sign up to this, you're signing a hell of a lot of your rrights away, willingly, like a sheep.
Your friends and family, credit card and social networking info is all at stake, and more.
It is, of course, your choice to do this, but the fact that you do speaks highly of your complacency.