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>It's trivial to delete social apps off your phone, and claim you don't have accounts on (at least) the less common ones.

I have to wonder how long before we see someone get flack for not having social media presence at all. Maybe in 2030 I'll finally be forced to create a LinkedIn just as a safety measure for social media presence checks.

>My question is, do they have backdoors to the major ones? Say you go on a wild rant a few times, delete it afterwards -- can "they" root through the DBs and examine the deleted posts? Is that something meta/twitter/etc even keep long-term?

Given we had stories back in 2013 about how they tracked how often you typed and deleted without posting. (but not what was typed) It might be best to assume the worst as always.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2525227/Face...

A girl I dated found it creepy I chose to not have any social media. Needless to say, I wasn't going to install them again just for her.

Exactly, all my messengers, browsers, financial and security apps get a boot before crossing any border. It's easy to restore. Even easier if you use web sites instead of the apps where possible.

If I were you, I'd read again what I just wrote and ask myself, why on God's green Earth would I want to travel to the USA at this point in time?

It's obviously a bad idea at the moment.