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.

How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?

applicants for several kinds of student visas would be required to "adjust the privacy settings on all of their personal social media accounts to 'public'

They are so ridiculous.

But ofc it's not going to happen. They can lick my.

What the hell, I went to check the official website for my embassy and this is true??

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)

Yep, here's a US government source.

Technical Difficulties

(www.state.gov)

If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you're lying and deny you.

Nuke accounts 2021

Create new accounts 2022

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*social media accounts that they know of

I imagined. Probably it's better to have a public one where you have the kind of things they want to see.

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.

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 ‍️

You can buy accounts.

.... but isn't Lemmy social media? And you're here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)

So an applicant with dangerous people in their life, maybe an abusive family member or a stalker ex, is forced to expose their accounts they would otherwise keep private. That's the first bad-case scenario that comes to mind, I'm sure there are more.

I propose a new rule - if so for me, then so for thee. Anything imposed on legal applicants is also imposed on the lawmakers who put it in place.

I've heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of "friends" referred to as "antisocial media".

I don't think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.