I think they were happy to develop the internet for spying purposes. Remember how the Pentagon's Lifelog project morphed into Facebook?

However, there were unforeseen consequences. Yes, they did find out everything about us from our social media posts, including having a mass of photographs that had names associated and would be perfect test data to train their facial recognition systems.

They also gave us a way of finding and communicating with like-minded individuals in fractions of a second across the world.