It is much easier to opt out of the Facebook “Net State” than the Google one, IMO. I have never been on Facebook, family members email me, I still get invited t

It is much easier to opt out of the Facebook “Net State” than the Google one, IMO. I have never been on Facebook, family members email me, I still get invited to things, etc. I really don’t see what I’m missing by not being on it aside from some centralization of communication services that would hardly be much of an improvement for me. Almost everyone I know feels the same way. The common refrain I hear from most people is, “I only use it for photos and to keep up with X distant relative(s)/friend(s).” This also seems to me, to be the general cultural attitude towards it. It seems to me there is a subset of the population that are very active users and a further subset who are negatively influenced by its advertising reach. However, are we really to believe that a product that so many people claim holds so little away over their lives is really all that influential? Conversely I have almost never heard anyone do anything, but admit the power Google products hold on their lives (myself included). Even of the odd tech people I know who have, with great dedication used something like DuckDuckGo, disavowed Google products in their lives at some point only a handful have ever really stuck with it. Google’s reach seems far more ubiquitous and forceful then Facebook’s, IMO.