Social media is a giant nightmare.
It haunts us.
It does lots of things.
We all use it, though.
So think about this.
We're looking at Facebook.
Facebook has 1,051 files associated with it.
Where do you start?
Good luck.
On Section 5, we're going to teach you where to start.
But as far as geotagging, what happens
right now if I take a picture of myself in the studio
and I text it to all of you?
If I have location coordinates turned on,
it is going to land on your device,
and it's all going to be there.
That's EXIF data.
But what happens if I tag all of you in Berkeley,
California on Facebook, AND then someone acquires your phone?
Is it going to make it look like you
were in Berkeley, California?
Possibly.
What about Facebook memories, Instagram memories,
all of these things, like, your best of 2021,
your best of 2022, and you're posting this?
The memories that come up-- yesterday,
I had a memory of my son from 8 years ago.
And he was a baby, and he had like his first bites of solids
running down his face.
I shared it.
Is it going to show that I was in Vienna, Virginia yesterday?
According to Facebook, even though
I was here in California.
It's very, very messy.
Do not trust a location from social media
without proving otherwise.
So think of all these little breadcrumbs
we're starting to follow.
Social media can be a nightmare.
Cindy Murphy, who is a good friend of mine,
she was traveling to London.
And I asked her once.
I was like, tag me in a location with you on Facebook.
Tag me in a picture with you on Facebook
just to see how it would look on my devices.
At the time of extraction, it made
it appear as if I were in London with her.
So be very, very careful with that.