People’s privacy is not as secure on social media as many believe.

That’s the message that freshman and sophomore students heard when they went to a presentation during seminar in the south gym on Thursday, March 2.

Christa Dubill, an anchor for the 41 Action News team and Michael Daniels, an FBI special agent, spoke about how people are not as private as the think they are on social media.

A lot of teens in high school have or have been on a social media account and probably have seen photos of someone they know or photos of themselves which anyone can see.

If someone deletes a photo in their account, that photo will linger on the Internet forever, and it is impossible to completely get rid of that photo because someone may have saved and/or done a screenshot the photo.

It’s not just students that are looking on other students’ profiles. It’s possible that there is an adult or child predator looking at a student’s social media profile, posing as someone that goes to that person’s school, in an attempt to obtain information about that student’.

Daniels stated, “Most people have no idea exactly who is following them and could be posing as someone their age in order to see their pictures. It’s scary but real.”

On apps such as Instagram or any app with pictures, kids will take a photo and unknowingly give away where they live, or at least where that picture was taken, giving a child predator something to find, or to use to that to find that person.