New York Times: One Big Headache for Politicians These Days: a Messy Digital Footprint. This link goes to a gift article. “First: Long-ago social media posts or video clips by political candidates get exposed online, prompting a backlash from rivals. Second: The candidates downplay the comments and distance themselves, often insisting their views have changed. Third: In some cases, voters and […]

So, supposedly, five years of social media history is required to get a visa to get into the USA. Now Meta and X will hand it over shrink-wrapped, but what about Bluesky and Mastodon?

Or is this all a hoax? One report asks for IP addresses, which is hysterical.

#socialmediahistory #visainquiries

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

#HackerNews #USTourism #SocialMediaHistory #EntryRequirements #PrivacyConcerns #ForeignVisitors

Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Mostly forgotten in the U.S., but big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users around 2007–2008. Today it’s mostly social games & dating.

The #WaybackMachine preserves the early web, from the famous to the forgotten. Use it to find your forgotten corners of the internet. ⤵️
https://web.archive.org

#Wayback1T #Hi5 #DigitalHistory #SocialMediaHistory #Nostalgia

El 23 de junio de 2005, se lanza la plataforma comunitaria Reddit, creada por Steve Huffman y Alexis Ohanian, que permite crear, compartir y debatir contenido
#retrocomputingmx #reddit #20aniversary #SocialMediaHistory

Por si te lo preguntas, si tenemos perfil ahi: /u/retrocompmx. Apenas vamos comenzando pero pronto sabrás más.