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Another of the thousand reasons people should delete their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
by sneak 1y ago
Another of the thousand reasons people should delete their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
- jmye 1y agoWouldn’t that be likely to be taken as identical to having a locked one? I don’t use traditional social media, and never have, and have always assumed that would cause me to “fail” a test like this. (Sorry, I mean this to read as a question, not an assertion.)
- Liquix 1y agoif having an instagram/tiktok/facebook/etc is a hard requirement for entering the country, we've truly reached peak clown world
- emodendroket 1y agoBeing unreasonable seems like half the point.
- codedokode 1y agoIf 99% have the account then rejecting the 1% seems like a good way to not let different weirdos (like me) enter the country? And the irony is that this would reject only those who properly did the paperwork and won't stop the people who prefer different methods of entry.
- emodendroket 1y agoNobody is illegally entering the country and then beginning graduate studies at Harvard, so if you understand this as an attack on universities and an attempt to essentially “close” the country then it makes perfect sense. That JD Vance interview where he went on about “we didn’t need immigrants to get to the moon” is probably the clearest statement of their outlook.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- irjustin 1y agoQuestion: Does this create more problems? i.e. "I don't have a social media"; "Sureeeee buddy"; "I really don't, I deleted it"; "We'll wait here until you do" Some scary variation above.
- sneak 1y agoThis is only the case today because it makes you an outlier. When it’s common to have deleted your accounts due to widespread privacy impacts, it won’t be such a showstopper. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- catlikesshrimp 1y agoNow that we are there, deleting social media presence for privacy concerns, you will need to keep a "Stub" account to access the parts of life that require social media accounts: marketplace, local groups, immigration.
- jjulius 1y agoI killed my accounts with fire some time back and have yet to come across a single instance where I've felt that I've needed some kind of "stub" account. YMMV, however.
- bigbacaloa 1y ago[dead]
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoI have vague but genuine concerns about that. I legitimately don't have any social media accounts. Does HN count? Well, none that can be casually associated to the name on my passport.
- GJim 1y ago> Does HN count? Social media is where one shares ones social life (it's in the name!). Technical discussion forums are something entirely different. Naturally, there is sometimes crossover (I'm thinking of a motorbike forum I frequent), but to suggest the likes of HN is social media is demonstrably false.
- emodendroket 1y agoNot having social media is itself considered suspicious in these same guidelines. Or at least that's what I read in the news when they started talking about this recently.
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- Viliam1234 1y agoOr create two accounts for each. One with your full name, where you only share kitten videos, another one pseudonymous that you will actually use. Unlock the official one for the officers.