The Dangers of Social Media for 'Missing' Children

25/6/2015

I’ve seen a couple of ‘Missing Child’ posts on Facebook this week and I wanted to explain why I won’t be sharing them. They are always heart wrenching pleas for help. Some of them, I have no doubt, are genuine. I know this as a quick search on Google and I find that the police are also concerned for their whereabouts and are actively searching for them with the support of authorised charities and agencies. However, there are some that are not what they seem*.

Some are simply a hoax and some of them are not ‘missing’ at all. The child may have been adopted due to the risk of significant harm; they may be in hiding with their other parent as a result of serious domestic violence within the home; or the whole family may be in police protection and the concerned ‘father’ is not who he claims to be. Furthermore, ‘missing adults’ may wish for their location to remain anonymous, and they do have that right which we must respect. As virtual strangers we do not know the circumstances of their ‘disappearance’ and we should trust in the expertise of professionals to get the full picture.

In October 2013, there was a case in Sweden where a father published a photo of his missing children and asked for help in finding them. Thousands of people helped by sharing the post and finally one person recognised the children and let him know where to find them. What Facebook users weren't aware of was that the mother and her children were living under protection and with a new identity after leaving the father. When he found them they were forced to move again, but the consequences could have been much worse.

Jayne has also been in touch to say that she "know[s] of a Father who'd been rehomed with his children and the Mother found her children who were in protective custody from her using facebook. Really good to make people aware!!".

In other cases here in the UK, the birth parents of adopted children are using Facebook and other social networking sites to track down their children, flouting the usual controls and safeguards. Incidents are becoming more and more common and many local authorities are now advising adoptive parents not to include photographs in their annual letters, in case these are posted online in an attempt to trace the child.

F.m has said: "We have 3 children who are adopted, and we had this happen. We had sent the birth family photos with the letter of our girls as bridesmaids. They were then posted on Facebook as 'abducted, please help us find them', very scary indeed. They were removed from their birth family for very good reason, and must be protected from them for life. Social media is dangerous and we live in fear of someone posting something which helps birth family find them."

So, what can you do to help?

Think before you share.
Check that the ‘missing child’ is missing and that the police are also concerned for their welfare and whereabouts.
Check Interpol's list of missing persons.
Try to only share information from genuine police appeals or an authorised charity acting on their behalf.
If you do see someone featured in one of these ‘missing child’ posts contact the police – not the facebook user. You should do this whether you believe the post to be genuine or malevolent. If you have seen them, then it is possible others will have too, and it is important that the police have an opportunity to safeguard them should they need to.

Thank you for all the likes and shares on this post. Please take a look at the rest of my blog. You can also follow me on facebook and twitter.

* This post is not referring to genuine appeals for information by the police or any authorised charity acting on their behalf.

65 Comments

Jan Mitchell link

25/6/2015 07:02:43 am

I agree with everything you said. I 'felt' something wrong with these posts and did not forward any on. You have articulated my feelings for me. Good on you.

Syb

25/6/2015 02:57:27 pm

I agree....I'll only share missing persons posts that the police have issued not some random ones.

Nigel O`Mara link

25/6/2015 03:54:23 pm

Just so you know max I always get my links direct from the police :-)

surviving safeguarding

26/6/2015 01:31:34 am

Macca Pacca

26/6/2015 03:53:51 am

Unfortunately you do see some dubious ones on Facebook, however there is "Child Rescue Alert is the responsibility of CEOP, a command of the National Crime Agency (NCA). It is managed in partnership with the charity, Missing People, which is responsible for its promotion and operation, and also with Groupcall which provides the subscription website and the underlying alerting software" http://childrescuealert.org.uk/

Dawn Warrington

26/6/2015 04:15:26 am

I too am concerned about 'sharing' these posts and believe the above is a good compromise.

rosemary paisley

26/6/2015 05:22:58 am

this made me think, I used to share ,but I wont any more, unless the police say its ok

Barefoot Social Work

26/6/2015 06:06:26 am

Thank you for your comment. It's important to note that the police often rely upon help from the public in missing person cases and social media can play a role in that.

#thinkbeforeyoushare

http://socialsignin.co.uk/blog/social-media-missing-persons/

26/6/2015 06:08:50 am

I think this should also apply to missing pets, always contact the police first with any information, not everything you read online is genuine. I also wouldn't share a post which has a photo of someone and accuses them of a crime with no police evidence to back it up, for example posts such as 'have you seen these people, they are stealing dogs in this area' - really, are they? If so, make the police aware so they can distribute the genuine facts, otherwise someone might go out and hurt these people, who may be innocent!

21/7/2015 07:40:08 am

police don't need to know about missing pets... come on now, ,like they don't have enough to do...

Reverend Mik

24/7/2015 01:40:07 am

Actually, here in San Francisco, where in the last few months we have had some horrifying crimes committed against animals, the police and Animal Care and Control work together to make sure that such claims are truthful and above-board. And I feel honored by the service ACC does to protect our pets and other animals. They are truly professionals.

Here's a hint: any time someone tells you "don't contact the police, they don't need to know (or don't need to be bothered", contact the police. Immediately. That rule of thumb has helped me save several lives.

Wolf Baginski

7/2/2016 12:19:19 pm

After seeing this, I would be wary about pets too. If somebody had fled abuse, and taken a distinctive pet with them, that pet could be a way of tracking them down.

I suspect pets don't travel that far anyway, though it depends on where they went missing. We had a dog who loved travelling in the car, but in many ways it was an extension of home. But how many missing pets need the indiscriminate world-wide reach of social media?

A Friend

21/7/2015 04:27:32 pm

Totally agree with you!

Polly link

26/6/2015 07:27:03 am

Hello, Polly here from the charity Missing People.

I just wanted to feed into this thread to explain how our charity approaches this. When we share appeals for missing children through the charity's social media channels (@missingpeople and facebook.com/missingpeople.uk) we only do so on the request of the police and with permission of the family.

We encourage our followers and supporters to like, share and retweet these posts rather than re-posting them organically so that when the missing child or adult is found, we can remove their appeal from the feeds of everyone who has shared it.

Similarly, we never share appeals when asked to through social media unless we have been asked to/had permission from the police. It seems like everyone on this feed is being equally conscientious about sharing appeals where the provenance isn't clear.

Child Rescue Alert as mentioned above is a separate tool that we use to issue urgent alerts to large audiences when a child is known to have been abducted or their life is believed to be at immediate risk. Members of the public can sign up to receive these free alerts via email or sms here: http://www.childrescuealert.org.uk/register. Due to the strict criteria for these alerts, it is likely they will only be issued rarely.

Hope this has been of some use - you can imagine that we see a lot of missing appeals every day and I appreciate it is hard to know what to do when asked to share them! Please feel free to contact us via twitter or facebook for more info.

Polly

28/6/2015 12:55:36 am

Hi Polly. Thank you for reading and sharing information about your charity.

As I have said in the article, this post is not about genuine police appeals for information or authorised agencies acting on their behalf. The police often rely upon help from the public and it is important that people pass on whatever information they have to them. I am simply reminding people to think before they share, particularly, as you say, when the provenance is unclear.

Davy Mac

5/7/2015 10:37:45 am

I really think your charity should hang its head in shame, come on lets get real, having Kate Mccann on board is not and never will be a good thing for your organisation, a mother who left three young children on their own in an apartment while she went off socialising which in turn led to one of those children going missing never to be seen since, how can you justify her involvement? Sadly as long as she is involved your charity can have no credibility whatsoever.

Brian Atkinson

6/7/2015 01:29:03 pm

Every year, parents leave their children alone while on holiday, thinking they are safe, especially as the McCaans were in sight of the villa. How many children go missing on crowded beaches when the parent looks away for a couple of seconds. Or busy supermarkets and shopping malls where children have been taken from but you do not hear about their parents who thought their kids were safe and their children end up dead or never found. It's only because Kate & Gerry have done everything possible to find Madelleine and still do, keeping it high profile. There must be many charities that have no credibility according to your own definition. Why don't you mention them? You say that because Kate is involved the charity has no credibility whatsover. That is your opinion. I think it is good that Kate is involved. Who knows what it is like to have a child go missing more than her? I will always support Kate and Gerry along with all parents who have lost children but do what they can to help others find their children as well. In the UK a child goes missing every 3 minutes, that's an awful lot of parents who thought their children were safe and an awful lot of charities that you give no credibility to.

Krystal

22/7/2015 08:00:00 pm

Wow. You certainly like to judge people harshly. Dismissing an entire organization because you disagree with the parenting of one person who is on the board is really rational (sarcasm). Are you one of those parents who is perfect and has never done anything that you regret?

eva ruebsamen link

25/9/2015 05:27:43 am

I believe Kate sat in a garden oposite the flat where her children were. I've done that.

Sandra

21/7/2015 08:08:45 am

Surely it's not the sharing but the response that is in question. If a missing person is spotted the response should always be via the police.

John link

27/6/2015 10:46:22 am

Good post links. I think we could all generally think a bit more about what we share online. Where does the original story come from and what is the motivation behind the post..

27/6/2015 11:31:56 am

Thanks John. I was motivated to write the post after I saw a couple of 'missing child' posts on Facebook last week. As a Social Worker specialising in children's safeguarding I see the dangers in sharing these without knowing the full facts of the case. I wanted to share these concerns with others and use my blog as an awareness raising tool.

I have provided a link in the article to the case in Sweden. Here it is again: http://www.metro.se/nyheter/secret-identity-blown-after-plea-on-facebook/EVHmjv!OBNTJn7I6LZ42/

John

28/6/2015 04:07:59 am

Thanks for the sound advice, but worth noting that its not just fathers that can be abusive but mothers too - please don't continue to spread this type of stereotype.

28/6/2015 04:26:01 am

Hi John. Thank you for your comment. You are quite right that women are also the perpetrators of domestic violence and I have worked with many families where this has sadly been the case. This is why, you will note, I said 'they may be in hiding with the other *parent* as a result of domestic violence'. It was simply a fact of the case in Sweden that the victim was the mother and children.

28/6/2015 05:40:02 am

Thank you for the reply and of course you're right - re-reading my comment I came across a bit too strong and apologise for that.
My concern is that there is such a common belief that it is just males that behave poorly when I see the finger being pointed at males (while I agree more frequent) it often blinds me to the rest of the content, but as you say in the specific case you mention it was a male and it is right to alert people to this kind of action.

Doug

22/7/2015 11:59:07 pm

The article states that a father and his children were tracked down by the mother ... so it's not one sided, as you claim.

23/7/2015 06:38:10 am

Hi Doug. Thank you for reading my blog.

I added the quote by Jayne to the post after John had commented. It wasn't my intention to pander to gender stereotypes; it was simply that I could only find the case in Sweden to reference. So, when someone commented on this thread with their personal experience I felt it would add some balance.

Debbie

28/6/2015 06:17:43 am

I research everything before I share. I'm also dubious about lost holiday photos and the ilk, they could be the same type of thing.

tammy

28/6/2015 06:23:33 am

It never occurred to me that someone would use a post like this to find a vulnerable person. Thank you for bringing it to my attention I would be devastated to think I could have helped them I will definitely share this post.

Ginny

28/6/2015 04:45:04 pm

an angle that I have never considered before I shall be more circumspect in sharing pleas in the future Thank you for this insight.

28/6/2015 05:09:30 pm

Recently a child was not missing but had actually been abducted and assaulted. Fb attention has ensured there is now no anonymity for this child in the forthcoming court case. Misguided good intentions.

Tina

28/6/2015 06:38:22 pm

Can I ask whats wrong with the birth parents trying to find their child that was adopted? I think its great that adoption is becoming more open and the adoptive parents can incoporate the birth parents into a part of their childs life. The biological parents and the adoptive parents can collaborate on an openness agreement and it helps lessen the grieving for all parties as well as encourages a stronger sense of identity for the child. The biological parents have experienced a loss and by being a part of their child life (to what extent can differ) can help with the healing process. It is a shame when not all parties can maintain the openness agreement and could empathize that they would want to find the child to maintain contact. Though I believe spreading their picture over social media may not be the best option but desperation can call for some extreme measures.

29/6/2015 03:10:13 am

Hi Tina. Thank you for your comments.

Removing a child from their birth family should always be a last resort when no other option is available. When it is appropriate for contact to remain, in some form or another, that is considered within court proceedings. However, it is wrong that children are put at risk when these controls and safeguards are circumvented through the use of social media.

29/6/2015 10:42:06 am

Thank you for your response.
Yes, I completely agree that posting a childs photo as a missing child over social media is wrong and completely violates the childs privacy. However I do not believe in 'advising adoptive parents not to include photographs in their annual letters' for this reason. I apologize that I do not know where you are reside, I live in Canada and if you go through an adoption agency they have more of a moral agreement on openness, it is not done within courts. So that is what I am referring to. There is plenty of research done on the benefits of openness within adoption and it can help the healing of grief and loss that all parties are affected by. If the birth family is trying to find their child and resorting through a missing childs social media ad, then there must not be openness within the families for whatever reason. That would be an extreme and dangerous measure to go through. I hope that in those circumstances we can look at the societal structures at play and consider that all agencies that facilitate adoptions can consider the benefits of endorsing openness between the birth family, the adopted family and the child.

Joanna

29/6/2015 03:11:24 am

If the adopted child is now an adult then the birth parents can go through the official channels to let the adopted person know they wish to make contact.
However, if the adopted person is still a child then the birth parents must respect the court orders which set the level of contact until the adopted person is 18.
Birth parents usually love their children and are often blind to the damage and harm they have done them. They may be addicts or be unable to provide a safe environment for the child. Often this is because of their own poor upbringing and they simply do not know how to do this or even that it is an unsafe enviroment.
Adoption is always the final resort, there will be intervention, foster care, trial contact and so on. It can take years for adoption to go through.
The birth parents must accept that sometimes a clean break is best for the child, no matter how painful it is to the adults involved.
There will usually be a minimum of one letter drop per year so they will be getting information too.

Rhi link

29/6/2015 04:12:15 am

In addition to the author and Jen, surely it should be up to the child as to whether they want to be contacted by their birth parents. not have it forced upon them.

Deborah link

26/7/2015 05:06:29 am

Hi Rhi, I was fostered for years so I have some idea of what these arrangements are like for children. I agree with you that the child should have a say and not the adults, it is a crying shame that kids are forced to wait until they are 18 to make contact or find them, when they may have wanted contact when they were aged 12 (for example). Not all situations are exactly the same, so no two children are the same. If a child desires to find their own family they should be encouraged to do so unless they were abused and that is the reason they were removed.

29/6/2015 11:42:38 am

Tina,

Here in the UK the majority of adoptions are what's called 'forced adoptions'. That is to say, adoption where parental consent has been dispensed with by the court due to a risk of significant harm. Children adopted with the consent of the birth parent (relinquished children) may have different arrangements for contact. As my experience is primarily within the field of safeguarding I have no experience of the latter. However, I would say that in either case it is not appropriate to search for an adopted child via social media and doing so puts the child in a very vulnerable position. My view remains that people should only share missing child posts where it is known the police, or other authorised agencies acting on their behalf, have said it is safe to do so.

ange link

6/7/2015 04:22:47 pm

Tina, I understand that some parents may find it hard accepting giving up a child for adoption, but when the adoption process took place, they no longer have rights as their parent. They gave up those rights when they gave up the child. So no I don't agree that a biological parent should have some sort of open access. At what point is that in the Childs best interest? But if the child ,when old enough, wants to search for its birth parents then that's different. But I don't agree with a birth parent trying to find the child.

jan

21/7/2015 07:28:14 am

As a Adopted person i Would be very upset if the first contact from my birth parents was on face book they should go through corect channels and let me have time to see how i feel with out all of face book knowing about it plus as some one else put in some children were adopted to save them fro the birth family its not all happy familys

aleks potter

21/7/2015 01:30:54 pm

it is not always the case that both sets of parents can sort out things, not all children who are adopted are "given up" some are removed as a place of safety and it is not in the interest of the child to have contact. once the child is 18 they are free to do as they wish and find the parent then. There is also the problem with children who might be in Foster care due to a parent being unable to look after them. children's photos should never be shared by strangers and posted everywhere!!!

cherie

26/7/2015 08:46:26 am

In the UK, many adoptions are 'forced' or non-consensual and there are very strict contact arrangements in place. Having worked in social care also know of many fostered teens who return to very dangerous birth parents when they run away. To share and potentially locate some young people puts them at risk of significant emotional and physical harm. Many children are removed for their own protection, not so they/their personal circumstances can be splashed all over random social media at a later date. That a birth parent would choose to do so (to my mind) upholds some of the concerns that may exist for their removal (selfishness, lack of empathy, lack of concern for child's emotional health). At 18, the child is considered an adult and can then make arrangements to seek their birth parents/siblings if desired. Before that, it is not a call to be made by well-meaning but ill-informed members of the public.

Margaret

27/7/2015 05:58:37 am

I have two adopted kids. I maintain letterbox contact with their birth parents, as is very common these days. If there is no letterbox contact that usually means the circumstances of the child's adoption were so negative that it is felt that there should be no contact at all. My kids were damaged to some extent by their birth parents, but we still keep contact. However I would be horrified if the parents tried to make direct contact. Not out of fear of losing my kids, but out of fear that the kids, who are already to some extent disturbed by their experiences, should be subject to further distress and trauma. These days it is normal for social services to keep records of adopted kids, so if the birth parents wish to get in touch they can do it that way, rather than directly. Kids need protection, and allowing possibly violent or abusive parents to get in touch or even trace these kids is not protection. The kids rights MUST come first.
My kids may well wish to contact their birth parents when they are adult, I will fully support them if they do. But direct contact while they are still children? No. Not in this family, it would be too confusing and painful for the kids. In some circumstances it is appropriate, but that needs to be done in a controlled manner, with proper consultation between all parties.
I have to add that with modern social media my kids may well attempt to contact their birth parents before they are adult. My eldest is keen to join Facebook as soon as he reaches 13, and it would be unfair to stop him. His birth family is active on Facebook. He could find them with a few clicks. We will have to deal with that when it happens.
Yes, I do believe children are sometimes taken away unfairly, and I fully sympathise with those parents. But this is NOT the right way for them to be searching for their kids. Not if they genuinely care about them.

Annie

29/6/2015 01:13:31 am

Hi, I have thought this myself so many times and have only shared if the police have put on the post.....great you are making people aware, well done.

29/6/2015 04:11:06 am

Great post. Never really considered these aspects before. Mostly I don't share these posts because if a kid is missing in my area it'll be on the local news and the BBC because it's a very rural area. I share those news posts over random ones a facebook user has put together.

Dave Hemming

29/6/2015 05:50:30 am

I always google the details before considering sharing. Often I find that the child was found months or even years ago - not sure why those are being shared. I usually comment with a relevant link in that case.

Amanda link

29/6/2015 09:37:33 am

I agree 100% with what you have said, so much so. I have reposted this on my page as a warning to others, to stop and think twice about what they post. It's easy to hit the share button without checking the facts first.

j g collins

29/6/2015 01:44:15 pm

Generally, don't believe anything you read on social media. Check everything before you re-post it. Snopes (though not infallible, and sometimes politically biased) is a good place to start. Believing a lie is worse than being ignorant.

Natalie Carr

29/6/2015 03:17:48 pm

Well said! felt this way for a long time but didn't know how to put it in words and you've nailed it.....Thank you

Hj link

29/6/2015 03:54:01 pm

My daughter went missing for 4 days and nights and was found 6 hours our post was shared on social media. What a shame you are going to stop people sharing when most posts are genuine and is proven to be the police's greatest weapon in finding them. Yes, be cautious but do share! My young daughter suffers from depression terribly and I don't think she'd be with us now if she hadn't been found quickly. I'll forever be grateful to everyone who shared on Facebook and who helped to bring my baby home

5/7/2015 02:45:11 am

Hi HJ. I'm sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope she's ok. This post is not about genuine appeals for information by the police (or an authorised charity acting on their behalf). I'm not saying don't share. I'm simple saying that people should check the authenticity of a missing post first.

26/7/2015 05:22:08 am

Hi Hj, Iam so glad you found your daughter. The big problem with verifying stories with the Police is that they make you wait 24hrs before acting on anything, that is precious time wasted........your post of sharing your daughter's photo over 6 hours,proved fruitful. That is 18 hrs before the Police would have even started!!!! And you are correct that Social media is now the Police's greatest weapon! Not only that someone missing is not going to be on the police radar immediately so how would anyone verify who is really missing and who isn't?!?! We cannot afford to waste precious hours waiting for something to be verified, as you say your daughter may well not be with you had you not shared her photo on Facebook. I agree with you: do share.

Cricket

29/6/2015 07:47:18 pm

Thanks for this. Many things I would not have considered. I feel the need to add to the perception of "birth parents." It is true that many use Facebook to try to view their natural children. It is true that some adoptive parents prefer they not see photos or hear details about the children's lives. It is also true that many "open" adoptions which permit contact and/or a free exchange of information/pictures end up being "closed" by adoptive parents despite the initial agreement and through no action on the part of the natural parent. (I am an adoptee and communicate with many other adoptees and natural parents.) Many times an agreement is made to send the natural mother updates and a few photos each year- and many moms receive these with a happy heart and do not seek more info or contact. But the pictures dwindle and contact fades away after the first couple of years. Many moms are heartbroken by this and no longer have the comfort of knowing their children are safe and being loved. And some of them turn to social media to try to gain ANY bit of info or, if they are lucky, a photo. In most cases, unless the child is actually a legal adult of age 18 or older, actual contact is not pursued. The stopping of promised updates and photos by adoptive parents happens MORE often than natural parents with bad intentions seeking their children on Facebook. I just felt the need to share that since lots of folks may not realize that. heart emoticon

janis

30/6/2015 12:10:29 pm

Thanks for raising this. I have seen first hand the danger of social media being used to find a birth child who'd been adopted. Sexually abused as a very young child by parent, found in early teens via social media. Child believed all they were told by the parent, grooming is the word for what happened. They told their best friend when they planned to meet said parent. Luckily friend thought it a bit odd and told her mum, who spoke to police. Happy ending for adoptive parents and professionals but child needed lots of help to understand as she had no memory of the original abuse and she believed what she'd been told by her parent online. She also couldn't forgive her friend.

F.m

21/7/2015 04:06:17 am

We have 3 children who are adopted, and we had this happen. We had sent the birth family photos with the letter of our girls as bridesmaids. They were then posted on Facebook as 'abducted, please help us find them', very scary indeed. They were removed from their birth family for very good reason, and must be protected from them for life. Social media is dangerous and we live in fear of someone posting something which helps birth family find them.

Toondad

21/7/2015 08:36:46 am

Whether the advice on sharing is good or not, I still find this article tremendously biased and misandrist.

Men = danger - look out for dodgy men/fathers and their motives on ensnaring gullible females and eating their children. Get a grip OP, there are good and bad parent of both genders.

Rhindra

21/7/2015 07:02:10 pm

And what about parents whose children are forcibly removed by twisted social services trying to meet sick adoption criteria? There are so many of these cases. I can't imagine what it must be like to have a child removed so someone can tick a quota box. I would 100% support any parent who was trying to get their child back outside of the sick and unfit social services/family court cartel.

Prof Andrew Melrose

22/7/2015 12:38:41 am

Every local authority has an LSCB - Local Safeguarding Children's Board and I encourage everyone to engage with it. All lay people (non social workers, school teachers etc) are encouraged to join with the professionals (social workers, teachers etc). Just google LSCB to find your local one.

Michele Cook

22/7/2015 02:38:20 am

Thank you for posting this really important information. I only recently said to my partner that I feel really bad not sharing a post of a missing child but felt that there was something nor right about it because if there was we would have heard about it in the news. Even though I skipped it, it played on my conscious so your posting has confirmed my initial thoughts. Thank you I will share this.

Jayne

22/7/2015 10:03:49 am

Yes, great article thank you. I know of a Father who'd been rehomed with his children and the Mother found her children who were in protective custody from her using facebook. Really good to make people aware!!

Deborah

24/7/2015 04:56:32 pm

Thank you for this. Every time I see a plea for a missing birth family member or a missing / abducted child I feel torn... Of course I want to help genuine seekers.... I have shared your post with the hope that all on my 'friend' list take heed of its advice!

Marion vb

26/7/2015 07:40:46 am

I too am passionate about safeguarding children and work as a safeguarding officer within education. I totally agree with not sharing information over social media unless it has been checked out through the police first. We could be putting these vulnerable young people at further risk of harm.
Thank you for highlighting this.

Anne Peterson link

30/9/2015 01:29:59 pm

I wonder if things would have been different if the internet would have been the searching tool it is today back in 1982 when my sister disappeared. Finally we had her missing person case changed to possible homicide and we do believe that she was killed, but as you pointed out, there have been good outcomes by using the internet. It's sad that there are also people who use it for their own goals which sometimes are NOT for the welfare of the person mentioned. Very informative.

Matt Phillips

8/2/2016 10:23:05 pm

Why can't I share this in any meaningful, simple way so that I can relay the information above so my friends may make their own decision on this issue?

Also, why aren't our governments and/or these social media organizations working to implement SOPs in order to safely make use of these powerful tools?

angela lewis

23/5/2016 12:13:37 pm

An important point very well made

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