And actually, I think people don’t feel that they are the product using Google & Co. Sometimes, if it happens to have conversation on how is that I don’t have a Google account (I have a fake account indeed what I don’t use) I use Glenn Greenwald’s argument: What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you’re doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you’re not a bad person, if you’re doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide."

Nicely written :) Thanx.

Ok, so the same here.

Has anyone here experience how to convince people, just i.e. family members to stop using Google services? I remember when I switched from Gmail to another service, everyone was just shocked. Like I plugged myself from the source of existence. I cannot imagine what people will say if I report to have left Facebook…