By virtue of my choice of parents and their choice of locale when I was born, this particular bit of tyranny (I use that word advisedly) won't hit me, but when every other country on earth follows suit...
Waiting for the services to pop up selling fake social accounts as cover for the Officially Socially Atypical types.
Why not? According to an article I read, only about 75% of US teens use Instagram and a similar amount use Snapchat (the only media the article gave). Quite frankly, about 10-20% of even First World populations don't use social media or use it very lightly. That's not particularly uncommon.
> Quite frankly, about 10-20% of even First World populations don't use social media or use it very lightly.
10-20% is still small enough to start by assuming everybody uses them, and treat the 1 in 5/10 persons as a weirdo that merits extra examination.
Does your number include old people? I imagine a border guard would be more willing to accept a retiree not using social media than a college-age student.
To me it’s not all about that. It’s this dragnet and the meta data (profiles of people who connect to you become fair game)
Recruiters seems to always find me somehow though, haven't figure that one out yet.
I guess at the border, I'll give them my Github account? They'll probably put me on some blacklist.
Some of us just don't need the world to know everything about us all the time.
I'm convinced there's two types of people. Those who draw energy from other people and those of us who get peopled out after a short time and need to be alone for a while to recharge. Being social _exhausts_ me so I would rather my social interaction be in real life not making some privacy invading corporation money.
Let's call them introverts and extroverts.
That is exactly the definition of extroversion in the first case versus introversion in the second case.
I enjoy getting older. It spares me a lot of drama.
Are you not posting here?
1. HN is not a place where I seek "likes," karma (I know some do though), or share gifs of cats. Since there is karma and some sort of static identity attached to comments, though, I suppose it could be considered a social site to some. OTOH, I do not hold a Swedish passport, and do not plan to travel to Sweden, so tying my passport or other ID to my identity here would not be obvious, unless you count the NSA or whoever having the ability to tie my real name to this account.
2. I doubt HN is on the DHS list of 'social media sites' with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever other sites you kids are using these days.
P.S. Please don't misunderstand me: I love funny cat gifs. It is the main reason to allow the internet to continue to exist.
P.P.S. Yes, the above P.S. was included solely to influence border security when they crack my laptop / phone and find HN on my bookmarked sites with my login credentials saved and start scrolling through my comments here. Fortunately, I self-censor to avoid losing too much karma with any single comment, which should keep me safely in the mainstream of contemporary public mores and avoid arousing suspicion.
In what way do you find it is not social media, or maybe I should ask how narrow is your definition of social media?
I tried to find how exactly DHS defines "social media" because that is actually what is relevant to this discussion, but I was unable. I think someone had posted their definition in one of the other threads on this topic, if you want to try to find it yourself.
Feel free to read through Wikipedia's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Who said so? Border controls have right to turn non-citizens away on border if they suspect you are lying or not disclosing all information to them.
The right gets upset over insurance requirements, hard to imagine a real requirement to have a Twitter account.
The people who are affected are not voting.
EDIT: missed that it affects naturalized citizens too, but see below.
They also not make up nearly a large enough group for it to be likely to have much effect.
Crazy world.
(Might actually be an interesting project.)
If you're between 10 and 60 years old, "I don't use social media" will likely not really be an answer at the border. Even a barely-used account will not really be an answer.
They're going to be able to say you're probably just hiding your real account. That could factor into denying you entry into a country.
If this becomes common with many countries, it could become de facto illegal to keep social media out of your daily habits.