I don't blame them though, if you are lured into buying something like a smartphone, and want the convenience of say, using your addressbook across devices - th

I don't blame them though, if you are lured into buying something like a smartphone, and want the convenience of say, using your addressbook across devices - than what options do you have? I'm slightly older and a little paranoid - to the point I'm scared of even activating something like a Windows account on Windows 8 - because I'm not even aware what data will be exported from my computer. So to a lot of people they trade privacy for convenience. Everybody else is doing it, so why not me?