What's on your TikTok page? U.S. looks to scour tourists' online profiles

[Ninurta]

i have X account , and for starters i have to say X is irritating for many reasons. I have it , to get information. And...i have expected all the time some creepy people migh go look it, that´s why i have make only 3 replies to one thread . I am not using it for commucating thus..

I also have an X account, but can no longer get into it. I created it in 2014, when it was still Twitter, because I had to for an online publication I was working for at the time, which is now defunct. The publication went defunct because they required every writer to post about 50 short articles a day,and then promote those articles on places like Twitter. That was just too much for any one writer to keep up with, so the publication went belly-up.

I've not been to that account since 2014, and have forgotten the logins for it, so I'll never be logging in to X. I tried once, recently,to create a new account, but it would not allow it because I had already used my email address for the now dead account which I can't get in to.

I have a Facebook account, but that, too, is going the way of the dinosaur. I originally created it to keep up with family and friends, but now find it so completely populated by crazy people that I rarely ever check in there - maybe once a month, probably less. The latest wrinkle is that Facebook up and encrypted most of my "Messenger" chats, without eve bothering to ask me if I wanted them to - they just did it, without my permission. So now I can't even get into a bunch of my own damned Messenger messages. Facebook has effectively locked me out of Messenger... so I have to find other ways to get information out to people now.

The latest wrinkle is that Facebook has now put a "PIN" on my encrypted messages, and never bothered to tell me what that PIN was, so I will never be able to access my own messages there, so... fuck Facebook.

Now, even though I can't get into my own messages, the government can if they want to - all they have to do is say pretty please and bat their eyes at Facebook to decrypt the messages, and Facebook will roll out of their knickers like a schoolgirl on prom night to give the government access, but me, not so much.

I do not have a Tik-Tok, or Snapchat, or Instagram, or any of the other "new" social media accounts, because I'm not a teenager. From looking thorough some of those, they are for kids, not serious adults. So I've not bothered with them at all. Folks who use those probably shouldn't be allowed to travel anywhere without adult supervision any how, much less internationally.

So, because my "social media" profile is so non-existent, I apparently raise red flags for government types. Fuck 'em. They can jam their red flags up their asses and ride 'em hard while they geek out on other folks' social media accounts.

Just as long as they stay the hell off my lawn while they're doing it.

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