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What happens if you don’t have any social media? I haven’t posted under my name on anything in a decade…
Honestly speaking I see a future where people like us are left out of an integral part of the economy.
Many jobs will already disqualify applicants if they don’t have any social media, or refuse to provide account names. The rise of cancel culture means many businesses are extremely risk-averse, and don’t want any employees who are prone to posting inflammatory things.
I would think that having no social media is a good thing for employers then…
The issue is that they assume “I don’t have social media” is a lie. They assume it’s really just code for “I refuse to tell you what my username is.”
Fine, here is my pornhub account smh.
You will have to disclose your lemmy account.
Welp here it is.
I love trump!
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if a random immigration official knows about your anonymous lemmy account you were already mega-fucked on the immigration front. They’ve been watching you and probably have a 3 inch thick file on you before you walked in the door.
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
“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.
There are plenty of schools in Europe. There is no reason for essentially the equivalent of 1930s Jewish people to study in essentially Hitler’s Germany in the 30s right when the smarter people were getting out.
United States schools have many advantages over European ones. For example we don’t need a lengthy unit on WW2 era Germany, you get it for free by walking outside.
Hello ICE agents, let me walk you through my DeviantArt account. And here’s my second DeviantArt account dedicated to the weird shit.
Why the hell would anyone apply for a visa to come here?
You know, when I got my current job, the people in my department said"we tried to find your Facebook but couldn’t" and I said 'yeah that’s because I don’t have one."
13 years later, still don’t.
Though honestly even our work teams chat would probably be too spicy for these motherfuckers. They just want a pretext to keep out anybody. Like some law impossible to follow, that they can selectively enforce.
That country want to be alone, so leave them alone!
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.
“Yeah, I don’t have one. Cheers.”
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like they’ll belive that
Europe has great universities. Come study here.
Some of them no longer allow foreign students and some of them charge an absolute fortune to foreigners.
Some even free too
free for Americans too?
Yep. Top German engineering schools are free even for people on student visas. Only like one or two are not. I looked in to it a while ago but I’m sure many are still free.
Because it’s completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts
Its not about logic it’s about fascism - they want everyone to know who has power on you even if it doesn’t actually do much in practice.
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
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
Well it’s been like 5 months and we’re already here, so maybe another 6 months to a year?
Bout two months ago at the latest
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.
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 🤷♂️
Not American jobs, mind you…
That’s an excellent idea, particularly because that service would use AI against the type of people who typically shill or welcome AI products. Let’s build more of those.
You can buy accounts.
Actually they ask for the last five years, deleted or not.
… but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called 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.
posts pictures of moths or beans or bread
anarchist!
Yes? Anything I can help you with?
I know nothing about how it works but won’t immigration check account age for their legitimacy?
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.
Lemmy also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.
Lemmy is social media, but when people say “social media” they’re typically referring to one of two things. They either mean all social media including legacy forums or they mean media that is directly tied to their real names.
I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.
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)
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.
Nuke accounts 2021
Create new accounts 2022
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It’s so sweet that we want to act like anyone cares about our Lemmy history.
I mean if there was anyone harasses IRL for posting here, hit me up with a link.
But comparing Facebook to Lemmy is kind of funny.
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.
