[afro88]

It's unhealthy to choose to not be skeptical because you're annoyed that it's becoming popular to care about security and privacy.

It's a good thing that people care about privacy and security. It's a good thing that people question new free features and the motivation behind them.

Facebook exists to gather data about you so it can target advertising at you better than the rest and get paid more by advertisers using it's platform. Facebook will use this feature in any way it can to gather more data about you, and that's creepy and literally surveillance even if only for the time you're writing a status update.