Chatting to a friend who has bought a pair of Meta AI glasses

I’ll be honest, I was a bit surprised that I knew anyone who would buy a pair of Meta AI glasses. Sure, they are readily available, and presumably heavily advertised, but most of the people with whom I spend time - online or offline - are not the kind of people who would buy them. I’ve got friends who use Facebook. I’ve got friends who use WhatsApp. But the glasses just - to me, anyway - feel rather different. Nevertheless, a friend did buy a pair, and was happy to chat about them. My friend - like me - is a married, middle-aged, white man. Unlike me, he saw the glasses in our local optician’s, and wanted them. We didn’t chat for long, and, to be clear, I was kind, not accusatory. And yes, he wore the glasses throughout our chat. No, it did not worry him that using the glasses entailed sharing lots of data with Meta, or that this would entail sharing the personal data of other people Yes, he thought that they were rather cool, and that, it seems, was the main selling point. He didn’t…