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testfoobar ◴[] No.44314177[source]
Outside of just wanting privacy for its own sake, there are many, many reasons to keep social media profiles private: health privacy, sexual orientation privacy, relationship privacy, location privacy, financial privacy, etc.

“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said.

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sneak ◴[] No.44315092[source]
Another of the thousand reasons people should delete their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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irjustin ◴[] No.44315126[source]
Question: Does this create more problems?

i.e. "I don't have a social media"; "Sureeeee buddy"; "I really don't, I deleted it"; "We'll wait here until you do"

Some scary variation above.

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1. sneak ◴[] No.44315144[source]
This is only the case today because it makes you an outlier.

When it’s common to have deleted your accounts due to widespread privacy impacts, it won’t be such a showstopper.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.