Corrections in red.  Stylistic suggestions in blue.

"Privacy is dead, and social media hold the smoking gun." (2/2)

Nevertheless, these companies (such as Facebook, Twitter, Google) claim that they didn’t “shoot” privacy. It wasn’t a murder, because all these photos published on Instagram, all these brief messages posted on Twitter, were made wilfully. No one forced the users to do that. In a sense, they are not totally wrong. In my opinion, social media are not the ones holding the smoking gun; they are the ones who handed it to the internet users. We did the rest. We decided to shoot. Moreover, these corporations remind us that people agreed to their data policies. They have digitally signed on to them when subscribing. As result, not only did the users publish their private information knowingly, but they also gave the companies the legal authorisation to collect it.

Despite this, we can ask ourselves whether or not we had another option? In short, could we be up to date with our environment, with our society, without social media? Do you want to know more about this university in which you are interested by, before applying? Join this group of students on Facebook! Do you want this cool graphic app on Google Drive for your chemistry report which is due for tomorrow? Allow the company to access to all the information linked to your Drive! Do you want to have a dynamic professional network and appear as an up-to-the-minute person to an employment agency? Sign up on LinkedIn! Today’s society is instantaneous. Everything flashes by. So, if you don’t want to be left behind, being connected thanks to social media is not an option, but an necessity! At the same time, this deep metamorphosis of our society didn’t take place in a second, in a "shot," as Pete Cashmore argues/alleges/claims. It took time, but it didn’t make a sound.

To sum up, privacy is dead. Today, we don’t take it for granted, and tomorrow, we will have to pay to have some part of it. Nonetheless, even if social media started the process, we are also responsible. We accepted the conditions, but in reality they were imposed on us, not by companies like Facebook or Twitter, but by our society.  Our loss of privacy evolved slowly, and before we realised our privacy was at stakes, it was already too late.
Under these circumstances, the real question is not whether privacy is alive or dead, but whether or not we can resuscitate it!


Thanks in advance for any corrections or comments ^^!

Splendidly written.