Championing privacy and tech freedom with friends and family has often been a thankless or worse experience for me. Being the bearer of bad news and inconvenient facts puts misplaced ire on me. Ignorance is bliss. I feel a responsibility to my friends and family and do not want to be alone in understanding. At the same time, I do not want to be hated. I really try to restrain and tone down the topic, but the ideas consume me. I guess many people here have a similar experience?
@krock One of the hardest things was deleting Facebook years ago. I basically just had to put my foot down, tell people how to get in touch with me and pull the trigger regardless. Seeing how many people didn't care to keep in touch if it meant being inconvenienced was a little disheartening, but it helped to weed out who matters and who doesn't.
@gerowen @krock I feel you. It's been much the same experience for me. I'm the weird person in my family that will always go on about privacy and encryption about which basically no one cares except me, at least in my social circle. It does feel lonely at times but I still feel more comfortable with the knowledge what I'm protecting myself from.
