I think his point is that you may feel this way now, but in the long term it will become apparent that the balance is not in your favor. If it is in your favor,

I think his point is that you may feel this way now, but in the long term it will become apparent that the balance is not in your favor. If it is in your favor, then all the closed source systems and social networks have miscalculated and are in fact operating at a consistent loss. I am sure you are a smart person, but it doesn't seem likely that everyone has made a mistake in doing business with you and your data. He is saying that it may seem like a good deal now, but it is likely to become apparent in the future that it hasn't been. It isn't like we need a platform like Facebook to communicate on the internet, and we could avoid all the problems that communicating through them by using existing peer to peer approaches for online communication. I've run into RMS's page on this several times and it seems to double in length each time. This is to say that maybe things aren't getting better and the future in which even you might accept that it isn't a good thing to give ourselves to these platforms is quickly approaching.