Bradley M. Kuhn writes about the temptations of such proprietary web service social networks and about peer pressure. Even many people who are considered free software advocates use them. But that is digging ground from under our collective feet. Just say no.

With Facebook stomping all over users' privacy, there's been a lot of interest in open source and privacy friendly social network tools. The good news is that Mozilla is getting involved with a new platform called sudoSocial. The bad news is that sudoSocial is very new, and not quite sure what it wants to be when it grows up.

Sean Tilley, a typical teenager just about to graduate high school, describes his personal plan on supporting Free Software as much as he possibly can. He's leaving proprietary social networks, making his laptop compatible with gNewSense, and other things.