Agreed. But 99.9% of your real-life statements aren't stored permanently as they are online. This allows us to be more honest with our friends. We don't have to worry that something we said 10 years ago in a bar will be available today verbatim to those friends and to whoever those friends share it with... and with a strong possibility of people who we don't even know listening in. (In the digital sphere, privacy restrictions are much easier to circumvent than the space-time limits of real-life.)
