Stop posting selfies in your bikinis, girls!
Dangers of social media highlighted in Freedom Generation talk at Felixton College.
‘STOP putting your personal information out on social media. It is dangerous. Take it off immediately.’
This was the stern warning by Pastor Caroline Pitout of AGS Kerk Sonder Mure, addressing pupils at Felixton High School.
Pitout recently launched the ‘Freedom Generation,’ a campaign aimed at combating human trafficking in all its forms using a variety of methods, including educating parents and children and raising awareness of the hidden dangers lurking in online job opportunities, offers of modelling contracts and even in local suburbs where prostitution and drug trafficking houses mushroom.
‘Stop giving details of your school, your friends and your hobbies on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
‘And don’t think because you are a boy, you are safe. You are not. You in fact fetch a higher price.’
‘How many of you speak to people you don’t know on Facebook?’ she asked.
An astounding number of hands were raised, driving her point home.
Prevention is better than cure and Pitout and her dedicated team of interns are targeting schools to warn them about the lure of social media, which has become a field of deadly and hidden snares for sexual predators.
A presentation also demonstrated how false social media profiles are created in minutes, enticing unsuspecting and naive young people into shark infested waters of drugs, prostitution and even death.
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