> This is getting close to one of my biggest fears that go along with data collection driven revenue streams: the wealthy being able to pay for privacy and the rest having pay with their data, opening up opportunities for them to be manipulated.

Social media are nowhere near an essential service. We are not talking about power or water. If one finds himself unable to pay a (what I suppose) small fee for a vanity product, it's the case he or she should not use it at all.