I’ll never tell! 
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I can’t get into Instagram. So I have absolutely no idea what my kids are posting. My D did once snitch on her brother when she saw he had joined a frat. To be fair, I had told him I didn’t want to know if he ever joined one, so he didn’t tell us. It’s actually much better that we know because it’s a big part of his life and he tells us funny stories about it.
My kid’s parked car was hit, the classy person left a note. Ten minutes of Google with only a common first name and a phone number got me to his linked in, his business website, and more 
Decades ago on the forum that shall not be named, which preceeded CC, a kid commented and I knew within two posts that it was one of my DDs best friends. I never told anyone that, but it certainly made me careful what I posted, for a few years.
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My kids call it stalking, but I prefer calling it either investigating or doing detective work. Yes, I’ve done it, but I’m not admitting to much publicly.
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Just saying… what is posted on the Internet can’t be cut out with an axe!
Way back in the good old days I busted a few BSers on YSMB by easily figuring their identity… from a few bits and pieces of info they posted.
Someone I knew from 50 years ago contacted me during the pandemic. You bet I did a deep dive on them. Turned out their life had taken a turn that just didn’t sit right. I never returned the phone call. Was that too bad of me?
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So in case anyone searches and finds my “criminal record,” it’s just the one and only traffic ticket I ever got. I was framed 
Years ago I went googling to look up a girl I was super close with for two years at summer camp. She was such a funny and smart kid and one of my favorites. As kids, we had lived about 25 minutes away from each other, which when you’re a kid might as well be a different planet, so we lost touch the year she didn’t return to camp.
I learned she was a very popular and successful pediatrician (not surprised)who, incidentally, was serving up to 52 years in prison for trying to kill her ex-partner in front of their young son. 
That certainly tops my shoplifting boss story! 
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Not to send anyone in a panic or bum anyone out…but it is a fact that some young adults have more than one account on a SM platform - one could be their family or work “ok” account and one could be for their after 5pm/social/friends only - or at least not “all the family” account!!!
When you Google the Executive Director the Board I’m on let go last year, a bunch of negative newspaper articles pop up. She declined the severance package we offered her, in part because she thought her reputation in the community was so good she’d have no trouble finding a new job. Uh, no…. Now a year later she’s asking us to write a letter of reference and doesn’t want it to be just “neutral.” In return for that, she will accept a severance amount only 3/4 of what we offered her last year. LOL. You can’t escape your past anymore with the internet!
An even better word is ‘researching’. I ‘researched’ my FSIL when they started seriously dating and I didn’t know much about him. His small town paper reported he got a speeding ticket. He graduated with honors from HS and college. I found out his college sports. There were no red flags. I also saw the interior of his parent’s home that was listed for sale. All this is publicly available information and there is no shame in ‘researching’ it.
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What’s that???
Delete.
Yahoo Stock Message Boards! That was back in the early 2000s when those boards were very active.