I see many of these students straight up deleting their profiles.
Alternatively, they'll have a "public facing" social media, and a real one.
yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long
I’m so happy that I was able to skip all that stuff.
I stoped using my mainstream social media around the years ago.
I kept the profiles, and I think it is good as I can just share them if I’m ever required to.
Anyone applying to colleges probably has one already.
Which is probably a net positive on their lives. The less social media the better.
I will imagine that will be seen as suspicious. Interesting businesss to sell clean aged social media account for US only vetting..
Me: I don’t have a social media account Officer: Sure buddy, wait on a side until you do.
Im seeing people come in and out with burner phones that are set up to look clean and minimal.
Careful curation
"You better not have said anything mean on there that hurts Donald's feefees."
Why any international students still want to go to the US is beyond me.
The subtext here: “if you post anti-Israel stuff, you can kiss your chances goodbye!”
My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.
So, what happens when someone that doesn't have social media accounts applies for a visa? I assume they just won't believe such a thing and deny the visa since you can't prove a negative. Would it make sense for such people to make a social media account and just not use it? This is ridiculous.
It would make considerably more sense to not travel to the US, for education or anything else
The US has education?
Parts of the US have excellent education. Or, well, had
I guess start one, and just post praises to glorious leaders
They finally catch up on technology just in time to be behind again.
Many are rejecting social media at this point. That number will continue to grow
Welp, looks like I won't be allowed into America. Oh no. How unfortunate.
Of course you will! There are 30 countries in america, and 29 of them welcome you.
Looks like the US is not the country of choice anymore. Setting a profile to public means gets to see all those things you that may be embarrassing, career limiting, life threatening etc.
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Wasn't this always the case? I remember flying into the US during the Biden era as a tourist and had to declare my social media accounts.
Yes I recalled that too but I don’t recall the public aspect to be turned on.
Wait really? 😂
By this point who in their right mind would willingly enter the USA...
If you just have some random handle that isn’t your name. How are they gonna trace that to you?
Officer: please wait on the side
That's fine, who in their right mind would want to go there now anyways
and if you don't have one?
To them that is already suspicious enough to not let you in the country and put you on some list of known terrorists.
Everyone hated on her for speaking the truth.
"Do not come"
And the shittiness continues
First they come for the students, then next they'll come for the usual business visas.
I guess it's time to make my porn site bookmarks public for the sake of a visa. Maybe I should join a MAGA group on Facebook and praise our lord and savior, DJT.
On a serious note, does this cover ALL social media, including whatsapp too? So it is literally "you surrender everything just to study". That's fucked up.
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