I've become convinced that people were already looking for a concrete reason to dislike Facebook. They resent the presence of social media in their lives and th

I've become convinced that people were already looking for a concrete reason to dislike Facebook. They resent the presence of social media in their lives and the influence it has, not to mention the annoyance and over-saturation. But they see some usefulness too and/or don't want to be out of the loop, so they're not ready to totally walk away. So they remain in a situation they don't like, and there's been a lot of simmering frustration. Then this data collection thing came along, and it became a way of venting some of that frustration. So it became a myth that a lot of people believe in. A myth because, while Facebook definitely isn't perfect, people believe it is doing certain bad things it really isn't. To me this suggests that, like a couple who has a big argument over some trivial non-issue, there is probably some other real issue that needs to be sorted out.