Did EVERYONE forget about INTERNET SAFETY?!

here's a pro tip guys: don't post, lmaooo. social media is literally not real. i have no idea why anyone besides creatives (who showcase art) feel compelled to post. i barely leave comments on YT, and i don't post even have other forms of social media. i simply don't see or have a need for them.

back when i was bored i used to accept cash in exchange for tracking peoples location.. didn't need to know why.. just free cash for beer.. people are dumb enough to post trackable deets then it is their issue..

This video reminded me of a murder case I heard of years ago, about an East Asian idol who got killed because a stalker of hers was able to identify her location through the reflection in her eyes in a selfie. I wish I remembered her name; but ever since I heard of that unfortunate story, I stopped posting on social media in real time, and always after I leave a location, nor do I tag locations either.

That was such an eye-opening breakdown of online safety! With how much people share online, do you think schools should start teaching digital safety as a required course?

I think people also need to be very weary of sharing when they are sick/under the weather/less mobile, etc. It's easy to know someone is going through a phase where they'd be more vulnerable to attacks and we very willingly share that information and thats so scary to me! I don't need anyone knowing i'm weak and would have a hard time resisting an attack on certain days

My ex boyfriend Jonathan Rivera was saying that I look like a crockroach online not true im a beautiful lady

About the school’s teaching internet safety; some do! Multiple schools I’ve gone to have done yearly assemblies teaching internet safety. They’ve gone over the very basics of it, but definitely they should go into more detail about posting revealing things that give out your daily routine and locations. That being said, it was just the schools I’ve went to, so I have no idea if others do this too. I’m assuming there’s more out there that teach kids these things though.

Some people haven't been abused by pro squatters or found out they're living with malicious criminal strangers after it's too late, and it shows.

Standup comedy was a very terrifying prospect for me once I realized that when I posted dates when I was performing I was literally posting my whereabouts so men could come stalk me 😅 it shouldn't be that way of course but still

This! There's a tiktoker who lives in my hometown and I was able to figure out basically what block his house was on from him posting easily identifiable stores, restaurants, and even the neighborhood he had in the backdrop of videos. Obviously I didn't care about actually finding him. I was more worried about the idea of if he were to really blow up & attract a mob of fans, how close would my family be and how much danger would they be in realistically? Like it was cute at first seeing landmarks of my hometown online but the easier it got to zone in on where he frequented, the more I got scared that people I know could get caught in the crossfire (everyone knows everyone in my hometown, so its likely to happen IMO)

I love how the likes on this video are even twice the number of subscribers. Anyway, very relevant video.

you are so gorgeous and glowing! and great video

I’m 19 and when I was in school we actually did have a cybersecurity class but I don’t think ppl took it as seriously as they should’ve

This reminds me of Kelly Stamps omg I felt so bad for her that she had that stalker!

This is why i made all my social media accounts private and removed all people who i dont know or whos accounts have no posts and/or pfp. Even so, i still dont post my personal information or where i am at real time or even my face anymore. The world is a scary place and with the internet, even more so.

This reminds me of the time my sister say a tiktok of someone in a mall and we happened to be in the same mall, so she walked round a little and FOUND the person in the tiktok.

I think that one girl that "discovers" people's accounts because they dare her it's a great example of how easy it is to track someone down. She would literally get full names, mom's account, dad's account, siblings, education just from something as random as "Cupcake_43" just because people are use to have the same username everywhere

i've always been a casual cyberstalker and i can tell you that i see A LOT of kids and teens that overshare online. so so many middle and high schoolers have the initials of their schools in their bios. i had an online friend on twitter when i was 15, he used a fake name on there, but told me his real name and just from that and the name of his highschool i was able to find his instagram without him knowing. he told me his mom's name and i found his address. you can't underestimate how easy it is to find stuff like this

I used to work for a recruitment agency and it was during the boom of several extensions that will find a person's email addresses on the internet for you. If we were hiring for a difficult role where there wasn't many candidates, we were encouraged by the company to find as many information as possible about the candidate before contacting them to make sure we have a "personal approach". When I tell you I was terrified of how many things you can find about a person and how easy it is.. 
I google searched myself that night with any keywords I could think of and deleted or reported all the content that could tell a person anything about me. 
By that time I used to have my surname on my instagram and was tagged on some of the company's instagram posts. So people from LinkedIn could have easily get to my personal ig account and some of them actually did with the sentiment they don't want a job but they would rather take me on a date. Since then I regularly check my digital footprint and thinking more about what I put on the internet.

I highly recommend google searching yourself using boolean operators like "your name" "your hometown" OR "your hobby" etc.

7:58 what does “ab***” mean?

Ive seen a mom on yt who posts her sons and she would livestream them at specific locations and ASK her viewers to come and meet them... Did everyone forget about stranger danger orrr?? 😭

Such an important point like everyone literally forgot to practice basic safety and that whatever u leave on the internet STAYS here

I really think people need to have internet literacy courses in their beginning year of high school. I also think it should be illegal for parents to post their children's information on the internet. Like I think if you post your child's full name where they live pictures of them and all kinds of identifiable information like that on your Facebook or whatever you should serve jail time. If you want to make mistakes and ruin your own life as an adult well you're an adult. Don't go messing with your child's future because you have to share way too much info and the kid is not old enough to have any idea what the repercussions will be or could be.

Seeing this video genuinely put me at ease because I was convinced that nobody knows about internet safety!

There was one time that a girl I went to school with posted a sideshow tiktok of her and her friend outside of her house with the FULL address in the background (the city name was in her bio and her username was her full name aswell). On top of that, one of her other friends posted a video that literally included her full name (middle names included), city, province, country, and if I remember correctly SCHOOL NAME!! That video is now deleted for obvious reasons but it genuinely baffles me that people think that this wouldn't affect them. I find that it's really common for people around my age put their school name or city in their bio.

Maybe I'm just overly paranoid about my safety but how common these things are are insane and I genuinely don't understand how people can put themselves at risk like that so willingly.

This kind of stuff is so important. I met an online friend through Reddit but I couldn’t believe how much information they had on theirs. They had their full real first and last name and their city. Just cause I was curious I went to see if I could find their Facebook. I could, and their mom’s Facebook! I learned where they went to high school and college, where their mom worked and what the front of their house looked like from their mom’s Facebook. And that only took me maybe 10mins

I don’t feel the need for this information and have no ill intent with it, but someone easily could

3:38 this reminds me of the Dan and Phil fandom. There were fans making models of their old apartment on the sims and on Roblox. They made a video playing Roblox and they looked at one of them on there and confirmed it was actually scarily accurate

I have never understood why people constantly share their location on snap maps like … for free?

People have lost all common sense

i love your format of videos. no waffling just information and commentary!!

I remember when I was growing up, you couldn't go anywhere on the internet (especially as kids) that didn't remind you not to put person things on the internet. For example, as soon as you when into an AOL chat room for kids, there would be warnings about what not to share online. I feel that we need to bring back that caution.

Recently I had to DM a girl I went to high school with because she had an aesthetic picture of her marriage documents, with both her and her husband’s social security numbers in full view

And it was posted for well over a year

That’s so true. I only post super personal stuff on my private instagram because the only people who follow me are like 10 people i actually know personally. I wouldn’t post those same things on a public account

my european city is riddled with Americans who moved in to the parts of town that locals can't afford anymore, and then they go on to post tiktoks of their window view with some very identifiable locations lol

I remember being taught internet safety at school when I was in the 6/7th grade. It’s crazy to watch people who sat next to me in those lessons post the things they were taught could potentially harm them.

i am not a influencer but i do send to my friends some pics of my life. and idk if that's normal but sometimes people turn out to be incredibly evil which i experienced but i also like sharing my life with people by my side. idk how to feel abt that.

(this was off topic btw ik thw convo was about influencers but i wonder if internet safety matters when about that?)

also dont let ur friends see ur location on snap map

In elementary school we were taught basic Internet safety during our library time, but it was mostly basic stuff like “don’t post your address and name”. I never really thought about how much could be that identifiable. At the time I was doing this social media wasn’t extremely prevalent too. With kids getting on social media younger and younger (the Gen alpha influencers especially) we absolutely need more in depth education about what exactly can be a bad idea to post

We went through years of classes on this. Literal years. Every single grade in elementary school we had a digital citizenship class

A lot of people don’t know that you should not share your last name online! There’s sites like peoplefinder that you just need to put a persons full name and you can access their phone number, email address, ect.

I actually tested out a site using my name and I felt uncomfortable with how much information there is.

Schools teach about internet safety but generic stuff like spam, phishing and not meeting someone in person that you met online.
It needs to be updated for the social media age.

i saw a body cam video of a man going to a school and trying to pick up a little girl (that wasnt his!) using her name etc because her parent posted all her school and name info etc on facebook 😓