Social Media Missing Persons posts

[DaveC426913]

I see these posts several times a week on Facebook. "Our [somebody] is missing."

It always seems to be some teen or 20-something girl, and the attached picture is invariably a professional portrait of a beautiful young woman.

I hate to be a cynic, and I would never say anything negative, but I can't help but feel like it is another ploy for clicks and Likes.

Worse, a reverse Google image search turns up this. It's even the same belt!

This is from a clothing store in Berlin, which is sveral thoudsnd miles from Fenelon Falls Ontario, where this girl went missing.

 

[dextercioby]

Maybe she's missing in Ontario, because she's left to Berlin without telling anyone. Seriously, social media, the plague of the 21nd century, has little useful time to offer.

 

[Hornbein]

I never see any of that stuff on Facebook. I stick with my high school friends. I seldom ever see advertising. I always denounce it, so they pretty much leave me alone.

 

[PeroK]

That's just "free speech" with no responsibility that what one says is true - and with.the full freedom to post blatant lies and misinformation.