>If you want to write your friends a message
Then I will use email as I do today. It works, it's universal, and it's free of this kind of bullshit (which is why they push everyone to use other things.) I even went on a date last weekend I set up over email (and it's far from the first.)
Again, fuck off.
It is hard not to take a cynical view, that such dissenters will be pursued aggressively by a system that demands conformity. I do recognize the quasi-fascist leanings in modern consumer IT products and their backers.
But, even if tolerated by this larger IT-bound society, can this sort of IT abstention be carried on long enough and made feasible for different age groups and personality types? Can it be the basis for a sustainable, multi-generation subculture? Or is it more ephemeral, a phase someone might go through, like retirement to a quiet cottage...
Perhaps you could come up with some sort of argument for it from Christianity and start a Christian sect/denomination from it.