I miss the good old days when you could just open a telephone book and no one would know what you were looking up. Now everything you do is recorded by a third party.
Since communication was unencrypted, listening in was easy though. Even the instant messengers, up to 2005-2007, sent their messages in cleartext. So listening in was easy, but since storage was much more expensive, I don't think they bothered with recording them too much.
Regarding your conclusion, leaving FB and G is not even the hardest part. The hardest part is that your network probably won't follow.
Regarding your conclusion, leaving FB and G is not even the hardest part. The hardest part is that your network probably won't follow.