text:  Right? If I'm just trying to stay in touch with old friends, maybe I send this as a text message via a secure messaging app to people that I can verify are actually the people who are going to have it. And Kambalinov agrees. Even though he took his kids off social media a long time ago, it still upsets him that their private information is out on the Internet. He urges parents to keep kids off social media until they're old enough to fully grasp what they're getting themselves into.