Sorry, but you are wrong. I do not have an email with either and it did not cause me any problems.

As for it being only for account verification: Oh boy, you obviously are not aware of how they are collecting our data...facebook even gave our data to China. If you want to comment on YouTube, you must sign in under these exact conditions. Why? Because they want your data. Why do you think FB bought whatsapp? Those who do not trust them, their photos and info is on whatsapp, so FB got them anyway.

It is not a case of competition. All these corps are losing their members by the millions: Face Book; You Tube; Google (everbody is trying to use alt search engines); Twitter. People are moving away because either they were blocked or censored. The alt media: Steemit; Gab.ai and minds are providing the same services, but without censoring ANY of their members.

I was not being nasty, I honestly consider it VERY important each person makes an informed decision about their future. Please go to alt news sites (and those I mentioned above) for you to know what is really planned for us and why I am paranoid about them (I even get angry when I see steemit opening a page and urls for facebook and google show up). At least I use ghostery, which stops them from tracking me (use it if you do not).