Funny that nobody mentioned the following two upsides:
1/ You can entertain an audience quite easily - or use your implants as a talking point to strike up a conversation with total strangers. I do this quite often: when it’s too quiet somewhere: I conspicuously scan one of my implants with my cellphone and wait for the questions. It usually livens up the place easily for quite some time.
If you do it at your local bar and you’re a regular, you’re that’s guy that the bartender mentions when the bar’s convo circles around issues of identification, future tech, what humanity will become… And believe me, drunken patrons dive with surprising regularity into those subjects.
2/ You get to be a bit of a reference, even a source of authority, on implants and all the touchy moral, philosophical or religious implications of wearing implants - or lack thereof. As in, you talk, but I walk. It’s incredibly easy to shut someone up who’s talking bullshit about those things when you’re a living, breathing example of what they’re talking about.
Most fun of all: when the conversation turns to implants spontaneously (rare but it happens): you participate for as long as possible as just another guy with an opinion. Finally you reveal yourself as an implant wearer and you instantly own the motherfucker.
Even more fun: the bartender knows and doesn’t out you during the argument, because he too is waiting for the final grand slam 