You apparently have difficulty with the English language.  My cell, blackberry i-pad or whatever can't be hacked, because I first have no need for those things, and secondly because I don't have them.  If you want to waste your money on that crap, have at it, just don't invite me. 

The sites you mention, the so called "social networking", another thing I don't use, they're worse than useless.  ebay, another trash site, one for the real rip off artists.  Paypal, forget it.  Don't need it, just a useless scam. 

OH!  Page Plus crashed!  Do I care if someone knows I did something dumb and the program puked?  No.  DO I care if there was a crash and Microsoft asks me to send an error report?  Am I going to send it?  No, not for a ten year old program.  Do I care if flash crashes and sends a report to home?  No.  As far as I know, the "drastic, terrible, horrid" data mining by the big software firms, isn't happening. 

Don't you think, every time you take your car in for service or repair, that information, if you took it to an authorized dealer, goes back to the car company?  Sorry, it does, and with a lot more personal information than I have in this machine.  Do I care if someone knows what I posted on a group?  If I did, I'd be pretty stupid to have posted it.  How about the rash of breaking into corporate systems and stealing data there?  The better chance, by a huge margin, is those were either unix or linux based systems, not windows. 

If you're that worried someone will find out what you're doing, the better chance is you're doing something you're not proud of to begin with.  Worry on, just keep in mind that a lot of people don't like windows, but we still use it, without any problems.  YOur opinion counts for one, you, nobody else.  You're kinda outnumbered a little.

Doric

The "I" in Doric is Silent.