For those of us with gmail addresses it's pretty strongly linked to our identity too. Anyone with access to my google history including my email could tell muc

For those of us with gmail addresses it's pretty strongly linked to our identity too. Anyone with access to my google history including my email could tell much more about me than my facebook data; for starters they could easily find out my home address. The real issue is that I just trust google more than I trust facebook. Facebook has had a lot of privacy issues in the past, while Google seems to have avoided them. Google is run by adults, facebook is run by children.