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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.

herbst
Talked to police guy once for something unrelated. The moment I mentioned I don't have a telephone number all alarm bells went off in this man and you could tell the police guy was suddenly suspicions.
BLKNSLVR
I have vague but genuine concerns about that. I legitimately don't have any social media accounts. Does HN count? Well, none that can be casually associated to the name on my passport.
GJim
> Does HN count?

Social media is where one shares ones social life (it's in the name!). Technical discussion forums are something entirely different.

Naturally, there is sometimes crossover (I'm thinking of a motorbike forum I frequent), but to suggest the likes of HN is social media is demonstrably false.

0manrho
Thats some semantic pedantic gymnastics. Even if you could persuade me to agree with you (and I very much do not) it does not matter. The only definition that matters here is the governments, and they LOVE overreach.
GJim
> Thats some semantic pedantic gymnastics.

Ummmm. No. It's a statement of fact.

> The only definition that matters here is the governments,

No. It's the courts.

Symbiote
"Github" is on the drop-down list of social media identifiers for a US ESTA (visa waiver) application.
GJim
Saying that Github is social media (!) does not make it true!
Symbiote
It makes it social media for American law regarding visas, which is the relevant context here.
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF
This is really not a convincing argument. Plenty of people put social information in their profile on this forum; there is clearly some social aspect to commenting and I’d argue the social aspect is the reason to comment and read comments. There are comments that are automatically more interesting to read because of the name in front of it.

> demonstrably false

Surely not “demonstrably” false. How would you demonstrate it? You may believe that it’s not social media but there’s no reason for you to think I should not believe it is social media.

zarzavat
Under your definition Reddit and Twitter/X aren't social media either, since you're mostly interacting with strangers. I believe your definition doesn't reflect how the term is used.
GJim
Bizarre response.

One can share ones social life with strangers!

In fact Reddit is a prime example of a site with crossover between technical discussion forums, social media forums and mixed ones.

sneak
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.

catlikesshrimp
Now that we are there, deleting social media presence for privacy concerns, you will need to keep a "Stub" account to access the parts of life that require social media accounts: marketplace, local groups, immigration.
jjulius
I killed my accounts with fire some time back and have yet to come across a single instance where I've felt that I've needed some kind of "stub" account. YMMV, however.
OrangeMusic
Simple solution: have 2 accounts, the real one and the public one, which only has like 3 posts in the last 10 years about the weather.
jajko
Not at all, many friends have at least tried to cancel FB account, even when those assholes are making it a very lengthy and painful process. We talk about doctors and surgeons here in their 30s and 40s, wife is a doctor who waits for second year to get her FB account deleted so these are our social circles.

Its sort of a mark of upper class (or just having a class) in more developed societies these days.

Sidenote - all folks here working for meta - shame on you. I get the greed part, but then you define what sort of human being you are and what your legacy is.

bigbacaloa (dead)

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