"The basic question is: would you pay $1 a month to keep in touch with friends without ads?" No, I would pay hundreds of dollars to keep in touch with friends

"The basic question is: would you pay $1 a month to keep in touch with friends without ads?" No, I would pay hundreds of dollars to keep in touch with friends without external entities stalking-spying my interactions with them. Not just friends but employees and partners. I want a communication channel that is mine, not American, NSA owned. I mean I already pay thousands of dollars a year inviting friends to my house, to the restaurant, organizing trips to cities like Paris or Venice or St. Petersburg with them. In each of those interactions, there is no microphone recording anything I say, a video camera controlling all of my movements. But FB is increasingly taking all the information, for example storing trip pictures becoming a private archive of people's lives bigger and more dangerous than Stasi as they are developing in fact private life dossiers that could be used against anyone when for example you run for competing against the people in power.