Yeah, I think there's a big difference between accepting that if someone wants to know everything you do on the internet badly enough, there's probably a way for them to figure it out, and having your various service providers make it easy (or at least easier) to figure it out without even asking you before they expose the information.

And anyway, I don't think the assumption that I want to talk in a social networking environment with every gmail address that I've ever exchanged email with even makes any sense in the first place. TBH, I wonder if they rushed it out the door without having a lot of important conversations about how people would use it because they felt like they were behind the market or something (but that's complete speculation on my part - I haven't been following the press on it at all).

/ramble