Beware on social media: What you post may come back to haunt you

WHEN Kildare woman Joan (not her real name) investigated her daughter’s online activity, she was shocked.

In addition to the Facebook, Youtube, Bebo and email accounts known to Joan, her daughter had a second Facebook account. When confronted, the girl referred to it as her ‘sexy facebook’.

“It had over 500 friends and, by the time I downloaded all the messages to go through them, they totalled nearly 10,000. No joke, I seriously nearly took root in the PC room going through them,” Joan says.