Filmmaker Shows How Easy It Is To Get Personal Details From Social Media

Here’s something that should’t send a chill down your spine, but it likely will.

Filmmaker Jack Vale posted a video on YouTube called “social media experiment” where he combs through social media posts from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Foursquare to look up information on people nearby. He then approaches them and rattle off a list of details about their personal life, all to the shocked onlooker’s bewilderment. The point is to highlight to people just how much personal information they broadcast without really grasping it.

Here’s the video:

Now there’s two other videos that Mr. Vale posted. Here they are:

Hopefully these videos make you reconsider what you post on social media. 

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