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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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If you’re a student, you must have something to hide, as everyone uses social media
For the longest time that answer would have been literally true for me, I only used SMS.
Even worse. Fully unencrypted messages
I'm trying to move my conversations to Signal, but some people are strangely resistant, despite using multiple corporate social media messaging services besides that.
People don’t like change