"when all the roads that matter to you lead to the likes of Facebook"
then you stop and honestly examine what matters to you and why... if it's a real problem (and I definitely would call leading a life that firmly requires & permanently integrates Foobcake to be a Real Problem), then think about how to solve it. Someone else did exactly that recently, and I don't have high hopes for their proposed solution to the whole surveillance capitalism clusterf***-- reviving Gopherspace-- because of course society would just turn around and "improve" that until it "met their needs", inevitably poisoning that instead. It solves nothing, prevents nothing, only invites people to try to work in knee-deep mud, and only temporarily.
Okay, Facebook is reliable, well there are lots of networks that are reliable and not trusted, and that's already been solved-- you have VPNs and secure tunnels and OTR and so on. So, new problem: you can't reasonably expect everyone in your personal network to start using something like OTR even if it could be integrated in the chat client (which you have to decide to trust anyway, and you already do, tsk tsk). You'll say, FB just works for people who can't even begin to think about their own privacy, or they just CBA, they're fine with whatever. Well, that will help while you re-evaluate how important it is to communicate with them. Apparently they don't care about YOUR privacy, either.
"Beware of 'the real world'. A speaker's appeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions." --EWD
Biting the hand that feeds IT
