I don't really think this article has much to do with, like, the privacy issues with LJ at all -- it's just commenting on how our natural human tendencies tie into sites like Facebook and Twitter. They aren't saying you have to share all your private information or that you have to take in other people's private information, or that either should happen against your will. They saying it's becoming increasingly common in our society, which is true. I don't really see how that relates to SUP violating its own TOS; it's not like it's saying that private companies making money off of personal information is beneficial to society.

Actually this part struck me as really interesting: "There is an idea in social psychology that you can talk about intimate things to strangers because they are not part of your network and are not considered to be a risk. If you're actually in public and clearly don't know people, it's almost seen as a private space."