New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

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.

Another of the thousand reasons people should delete their Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Wouldn’t that be likely to be taken as identical to having a locked one? I don’t use traditional social media, and never have, and have always assumed that would cause me to “fail” a test like this.

(Sorry, I mean this to read as a question, not an assertion.)

if having an instagram/tiktok/facebook/etc is a hard requirement for entering the country, we've truly reached peak clown world