Another good article by Richard Stallman - his ideas keep gaining even more relevance for me.
I do use Facebook to plug my books and to hopefully drive traffic to my blog articles, but I have been considering cancelling my account.
I have similar issues with Google, but with Google I get much more value: using G+ to promote my own web properties, and generally really useful services.
That said, I have switched to using my GMail address as a secondary email that I don't often check, and having the people most important to me use my own email address. Also, I give this advice all the time: choose one web browser like Chrome for use just with social media (Google, Facebook, and Twitter web properties) and another web browser for everything else.
I do use Facebook to plug my books and to hopefully drive traffic to my blog articles, but I have been considering cancelling my account.
I have similar issues with Google, but with Google I get much more value: using G+ to promote my own web properties, and generally really useful services.
That said, I have switched to using my GMail address as a secondary email that I don't often check, and having the people most important to me use my own email address. Also, I give this advice all the time: choose one web browser like Chrome for use just with social media (Google, Facebook, and Twitter web properties) and another web browser for everything else.