This is very close to reality. Looking at tech news today, just after this story, my next tab was a report on businessinsider.com [1] that Google is now making

This is very close to reality. Looking at tech news today, just after this story, my next tab was a report on businessinsider.com [1] that Google is now making bonuses partly dependent on the success of Google's social netowrk effort - and encouraging employees to use G+ and recruit friends and family to it. Clearly we have a minority of the population concerned about the erosion of privacy, colliding with a culture of sharing everything (openly with friends and family, invisibly with the online services and governments). The story and the news article (like previous hints that employers are suspicious of anyone who's not on Facebook) point up an additional new element of "soft" coercion. 1. http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee...