And this is what I worry about. Seriously. My online footprint is minimal. I just hope gov will be still incompetent and lazy...

IIRC ICE has detained people trying to enter America without social media apps.

it's kinda like how the old FBI email monitoring thing, CARNIVORE, automatically flagged anyone talking about BSD for a 2nd scan

I met the parent comment downvoted: I don't know why, given e.g. the rule from the current administration in the USA that, for visitors, the absence of social network profiles is to be taken as cause for suspicion.

I've applied to jobs recently that require listing LinkedIn profile. Don't see how that is legal. I always put something like idonthavesocialmedia.com but I imagine it's a strike against me according to see brainless HR drone who sees it as problematic