... do I really want fragments of my life to be recorded by total strangers and then shared with God knows who? I really don't.
It's a cool tech, but its social implications are far from being trivial and benign.
Is there any cool tech that doesn't have difficult social implications?
This is far less problematic than an omnipresent, monitored, shared, catalogued and indexed in perpetuity, video system.
There are no CCTVs at workplace, at the parties and in the subway carriages. And no CCTVs are sharing out to the public. And, no, they are not "omnipresent".
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television#Uses
You only need to look at Google Play's lack of privacy to realise they see the user as a consuming resource.
At least Apple treats you more like the owner of your purchase, rather than something to drive ads with data.
I agree, far from trivial and benign.