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

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523 points sva_ | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
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irrational ◴[19 Jun 25 03:21 UTC] No.44315159[source]▶
I don’t use social media. Is the assumption that everyone does use social media?
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lurk2 ◴[19 Jun 25 03:35 UTC] No.44315216[source]▶
You’ve been posting here for nearly 10 years.
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Biganon ◴[19 Jun 25 05:57 UTC] No.44315861[source]▶
Forums are not "social media", this gotcha needs to stop. They've existed for longer than the web itself, we're pseudonymous, we hardly share anything about our private life, this has nothing to do with the commonly accepted definition of "social media" unless we're being overly pedantic for the sake of it.
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1. tim333 ◴[19 Jun 25 12:56 UTC] No.44318260[source]▶
Wikipedia has HN as "a social news website" and its close cousin Reddit as a "social news and social media platform".
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2. Biganon ◴[19 Jun 25 22:08 UTC] No.44322969[source]▶
Then I guess I disagree with Wikipedia...?

What is social about what we're doing here ? I haven't even read your username, I dont care about it, I won't remember you tomorrow, there's nothing social about that, or else we should consider that every single BBS ever was "social" and the word doesn't mean shit anymore