True, but I don’t think it’s due to a lack of faculties for most people, it’s just not an area of interest or a primary concern. It should be, because this sort of consumer and media manipulation is being used to enable some very dangerous things at present, but it’s really hard to make headway when you’re telling people how fucked up and unhealthy the one thing that’s providing them with a little escape and joy is.

It might be easier to lead an addiction intervention.

I try to reframe privacy concerns with the idea that if someone was stalking you and recording your every action in physical public spaces that you’d be pretty disturbed. Most people get it, they understand the idea and can view their internet activity through the lense of that metaphor.

But they don’t really feel it, and that’s where the disconnect comes in. How do you get people who don’t feel the Internet is part of “real life” to understand how invasive this is on both and intellectual and emotional level? Because of digital privacy and user rights don’t hold some sort of emotional significance for them, it’s going to stay a back burner issue in their lives.