Privacy and free data / data portability are in tension. If we're friends on Facebook, you decide to switch to Google+, you import all your friendships/etc from Facebook onto Google+, isn't that an invasion of my privacy (disclosing information about me to Google+)?<p>The free software movement doesn't have this inbuilt tension.
"The alternative is to live without Facebook, which is to live without all the benefits that social networking has given humanity. This is not a real alternative at all."<p>seems silly to imagine anyone believes this.<p>I don't use FB and my life is perfectly bearable.