"Past generations did(n't do) foo for a very long time and it seemed to work out" is a fully general argument against any and all change in society, ranging from Facebook to desegregation to bikinis. "Social conservative" is meant literally as in "opposed to social change", not to refer to any particular political movement. It's not a political statement or a dismissal; at most it identifies a fallacy by pointing out that the same reasoning would justify slavery.
That's not the point I made; I didn't say anything about it "working out". I observed that if people wanted a lower of threshold of privacy in the past, they could have already have had it even without technological intervention. Window blinds were not invented in response to Facebook. It's not about "working out", it's about desires.
Technology changes, but the base stock of humanity doesn't on any usefully observable timespan. (Yet.)
> I observed that if people wanted a lower of threshold of privacy in the past, they could have already have had it
And the point I made is that you can say the same thing about racial desegregation, the abolition of slavery, no-fault divorce, wearing jeans in the office, or the social acceptance of homosexuals.
