What if you have no social media?
I deleted it all over five years ago, Reddit almost 3 years ago.
Other than Lemmy that is. That's all I got if that counts as social media.
I feel like they wouldn't believe me though and deny me. How do you prove you don't have something?
They legitimately find lack of social media to be a red flag.
As well as the collection of social media information, the new document proposes the gathering of an applicant's telephone numbers and email addresses used over the last five and 10 years respectively, and more information about their family members.
DNA aswell. I was pretty shocked.
i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
I don't see that in the article, where did you hear that?
Sorry, edited it to my comment.
Edit2: Maybe it's not mandatory for now. But it looks suspicious to me.
Edit 3: Found it. Yep, back to nazi act alert:
Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application. The high value data fields include:
- a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
- b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
- c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
- d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
- e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
- f. Family member dates of birth;
- g. Family member places of birth;
- h. Family member residencies;
- i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
- j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
- k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.
USA is the new China
I went to the US last year for a work conference knowing it was probably the last time i'd be going
America’s gonna need to kill their pedophile overlords before I think about stepping foot in there again.
Yeah, I’m not stepping into America for a while.
And what if you say I don't have 'social' media, and you really don't haven any. Then what? I doubt the believe you.
The US could arbitrarily brutalize anyone for using the wrong flag emoji in their profile
Also, please don't delete your accounts
please don’t delete your accounts
How come?
My life goal is to leave the US for more than five years and to entirely avoid social media. I want to discover and embody a life without screens in a place (or places) that is not a dumpster fire. Imagine just living an analog life in some village, occasionally visiting a city... traveling by train or bus, buying a ticket when you need one at a ticket counter or vend machine... Who knows if I would be allowed back in. Who knows what the US will look like in another 5-8 years (since I can't retire for another couple years). It may be I can't leave and will have to find a place here as off grid as I can get. I know my kid and their spouse may also want to take a powder from this shitshow.
They asked for social media accounts in the ESTA application for years. I never entered anything, it always went through
So?
any idiot wanting to go to that fascist shithole voluntarily can bend over and spread his ass cheeks AFAIC.