Europe has great universities. Come study here.
Some even free too
It’s going to be weird when there’s no handle or social media at all. I nuked my social media around 2020/2021, I was legit tired if people posting travel pics and pretending everything was alright. Oh by the way one could make a fake page just for this, but deep down we know we don’t care.
If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.
I imagined. Probably it’s better to have a public one where you have the kind of things they want to see.
Tomorrow there’ll probably be a service to do exactly they. Give them a few pics and they’ll deep fake an entire account for you.
Trump, Job Creator 🤷♂️
… but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)
If you loosely follow the definition of social media to mean “Website where you can interact with people in any way” then yes.
But I think the average colloquial use of the term social media really refers to websites where you make a real life personal profile and share things on that profile. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. You as the individual are the focus of those types of sites.
The (original at least) point of sites like Lemmy and Reddit is sharing information where you as an individual are not the focus. Hence posting to communities rather than your own wall or profile, the use of usernames over real names etc.
How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?
Well well this is a recent account after all, so it is possible. Also, I do have a public social media, but it’s either used for messaging or it’s empty (follow - only).
(they mean Lemmy is social media)
Nuke accounts 2021
Create new accounts 2022
¯\(ツ)/¯
Closer to forums than IG. Anything old school deserves to not be bundled in with the rest of “social media”, so in that regard I get it. We still have handles though.
make social media private
say “i don’t have social media”
problem solved.
That is a fucking terrible idea. If they later find it, they’ll lock you up and maybe later throw you out. The financial risk makes no sense.
Find what?
I haven’t had “traditional” social media for years and what I did have has since been deleted, or so I’m told.
*social media accounts that they know of
Imagine a country, they spent billions over the last two centuries to build influence and they got to the top. Foreigners are willing to pay thousands of dollars for getting a degree in such country but no, let them go to a different country and get influenced by somebody else
Ah damn, I was a state actor who was going to smuggle in sleeper agents to perform sabotage and espionage in the US, but I can’t figure out how to create a fake social media profile. I admit defeat.
At least you’re not a teenager that has ever expressed any sympathy for Palestinians. Those are the real threat.
People are missing the point here. Its not about this being a valid strategy to catch anyone but its a fascist strategy to display who’s in control over you when you come here.
What the hell, I went to check the official website for my embassy and this is true??
Yep, here’s a US government source.
Yet another reason not to study there. Ideological screening, what a joke.
“Yeah, I don’t have one. Cheers.”
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“I don’t use social media and never have.”
So what are they going to do if someone fires back with this? Deny their visa because they didn’t agree to be spied on by a few of the worst companies on planet fucking earth? Is the government going to be able to somehow make me prove that I don’t have social media?
We have the stupidest people in charge right now.
Because it’s completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts
This will be a boon for stalkers.
well, have burner social media accounts as well
They say they will find those “with AI”. And they will, for true or for false, because they only want another weapon to use against the “undesirables”.
It’s because the morons running the country don’t think that constitutional freedoms apply to non-citizens. No freedom of speech if your speech hurts their feelings. Fuckin aye
They already didn’t think constitutional rights applied to anyone within 100 miles of the boarder. Hell, the SC(in 75) had to say, yes, children are citizens and also had rights.
And how long before that applies to citizens too? If Free Speech and Free Expression on the whole aren’t dead yet, they’ve got a foot in the grave
