"I don't use social media"

The username requirement isn't anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.

The "wants people to set their social media profiles to public" isn't quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.

This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked...but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.

Is there any way to practically check this? Surely just saying "i dont use the internet very much" is enough.

This is why I’ve already deleted basically everything, social media is a cancer that pushes us further and further apart and replaces meaningful interactions with vapid and shallow counterfeit interactions, it’s a net loss for anyone using it at this point.

I guess we can finally get clarification on whether or not forums are social media.

Holy crap. How is this even real?

Who TF wants to set foot in that shithole banana republic anyway?
Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people's countries.
That would be a welcome change.

I can wait for @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to share those moths post for his embassy appointment

Good luck. NYS couldn't even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.

But sir, the form only has space for four!

Oh look, fake social media accounts used. Fantastic. No gaps here!

Going there with a crappy handwritten letter including all 40’000 throw-away users I ever created

/s

I barely remember this username and I'm looking at it every time I post something.

Oh well, I wouldn't have been welcome anyway, seeing I've had the audacity to be critical of Israeli ~~genocide~~ defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.

Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.