And yet people still ridicule me as "paranoid" and accuse me of having "trust issues" for using an online pseudonym / "handle" and refusing to trust these corpo

And yet people still ridicule me as "paranoid" and accuse me of having "trust issues" for using an online pseudonym / "handle" and refusing to trust these corporations with any of the private data that so many of these service want to insist upon collecting these days… As if there's some valid reason why I should trust them with data that they repeatedly prove that they cannot keep safe from exactly this sort of "breach"… I just cannot understand how so many people can keep getting burned by these companies and still somehow manage to trust them with reams of private / personal data.