

How much do I know about you based on your Instagram?


Social Media websites can be a convenient way to stay “in the loop” as we all know. It was MySpace, then it was Facebook, then it was Twitter. At first everyone was super strict about what they revealed online to everyone. I remember going to a mandatory assembly in sixth grade where a man cautioned us all to not mention our last name, location, address, school, or never in a million years our phone number.

What the man said really stuck with all of our young minds, at the time. One kid was so worried that he deleted his MySpace account, and I gave everything I wrote a second thought to make sure I wasn’t revealing anything risky.

Last year I attended self defense classes and the instructor said to not even post a picture of yourself at your current location because it could attract aggressors, rather wait until you get home and post them as more of an afterthought. I considered her paranoid, and extreme, and just shrugged it off.

Throughout years of exposure to social media, we have grown so accustom to the easy way to share things that very rarely do we worry about what we post, beyond the thought of “If a college I want to apply to sees this what will they think?”

Jack Vale, a Youtuber who did a social media experiment video, does an efficient job of reminding people that what you post on the internet is accessible. Social media, while convenient, can also be pretty scary. Check out his video, below!

Ashley Bellinger, Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School

One Response

  1. etc says:

    Constructive Suggestion: Put a picture of a huge dog on your Facebook page and write “This is my dog and his name is Klller.” That should scare off any potential bad guys.