How to deal with privacy and friends & family

So privacy pretty important to me and I don’t fear loosing convenience for privacy. For example I don’t use operating systems like windows or Mac, don’t use any Google servers except for a university account I have to have and in general I try to avoid most proprietary apps. But where it all falls apart is things like messaging and communications, I’m sure this has been asked here a million times before but. How do you deal with friends and …

amp deal family friends privacy