What are 'Social Messages' in VW settings?

In option settings you can enable autolinks for Social Messages. What does this relate to in XF?
Why are the content types not just listed?

The 'Social Messages' option does not correspond to anything in XenForo. It is a bug that the option is showing.

For the most part, the BB-Code parser (especially in XenForo) is not aware of the content-type that is being parsed in a standardized way. Thus, every content-type would have to be tested for explicitly, based on different factors for each one. For this reason, only generic types are covered:

• Wiki - we explicitly provide the complete wiki content to the parser
• Forum Posts - all forum posts and forum-based messages, provided the view that is sent to the parser has valid 'thread' and 'post' fields.
• Signatures - only works for signatures that appear in wiki comments, due to lack of information for other signatures
• Other Messages - anything that doesn't fit into one of these groups

That looks good, but why not add:
- Profiles
- Profile posts
- Resources
- Media

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Originally Posted by Alfa1

- Profiles

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I was not aware of any part of XenForo's profile itself that goes through parser.

The rest sound okay to me. I have logged a request to add support for these types, and to change the way this setting is processed so that an add-on can add support for other types if they want to.

IIRC profile fields are parsed. A link in there will turn into a hotlink.

You are partly correct. I see now that the "About Me" field is parsed, but no other fields, and there is no option to enable parsing for custom fields.