This is true. It’s because people are generally on auto pilot and don’t want to risk awkward conversations. But if you can make the initial contact a positive one, they will warm up quickly. Unless it’s a girl and she thinks you are trying to hit on her, then she may starting to take another route.
No, almost all people working for Google are good people. They believe it’s fine to spy on people to make money. Doesn’t make all the people who work there evil. But the core idea is to offer free services in exchange for people’s private data. The company slowly but surely removes any privacy online we have as human beings.
It’s usually like this. People who work in companies do what they are told. They may even enjoy it. In Googles case, they have a reputation for having great engineers. It’s very good for the career to work there.
Please expand on your own ideas.