Situations like these do arise, it is only with great care and some sacrifice you get to walk this path. Losing out on the discourse between those who use diffe

Situations like these do arise, it is only with great care and some sacrifice you get to walk this path. Losing out on the discourse between those who use different messenger protocols or who communicate through the likes of Facebook or G+ is one of those sacrifices. You can try to convince them to join you on some other channel but the chance of this succeeding depends on those friends' attitude towards both the subject of personal privacy as well as your reputation - if you cry 'wolf' at every opportunity they'll soon consider you to be a tin-foil-hat wearing loonie. Fortunately the evidence against just those actors - Facebook, Google and others - is getting more and more visible and palpable to all. Between Facebook's blatant censorship of content and Youtube 'demonitising' [1] 'controversial' videos and actors, it is getting hard to avoid noticing that they are flexing their opinion-influencing muscles. This should make it a bit easier to convince people to jump ship [2] but you won't get all of those people to forego on the delights of Spies'r'Us or CatVideoCentral. Still, once a few of them join you you'll no longer be out of the loop and that is what matters here. [1] a good word in this context as it almost reads as 'demonising' [1] ...and please tell them that moving from Facebook to VKontakte is not an effective move in this respect