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Check out JoseMonkey's recent TED talk about internet privacy and how easy it is for someone to find you on the Internet based even on a short video or an image. If it is that easy to find out where someone lives based on a picture and he mentions a lot of other clues people use to connect accounts from different social media, imagine what others can do.
Now multiply the amount of accounts you have on various social media, the amount that you post on there, the amount of friends and friends of friends sharing, tagging or reposting your content and possibly your information and then compare it to the vast amount of people in the world who use the internet. Now consider the amount of scammers, spammers and other bad actors plus anyone who you did not intentionally upset but just makes it a hobby of exploiting these things and using or distributing that info. That doesn't really include sites with public record lookups. They might not steal your identity, but if they have your info they can give/sell it to someone who potentially will.
Online content is a different story. There is always the possibility, but there is no guarantee that they won't report streaming pirated content unless you take measures such as a VPN. Even then, there still lies minimal risk.
Also, being inconspicuous is comfortable, IMO.