B O B B Y, 18

DAWSON CITY, YUKON

I’m not a huge fan of social media. It’s the whole humiliation part of it. Dawson is a small town and everyone looks out for each other, but from Whitehorse you see anonymous posts talking about people passed out at parties, or doing borderline rapey stuff, saying things like, “I had sex with this borderline unconscious guy or girl or whatever.” It’s really weird — maybe it’s to get a rise out of people, but it’s still strange.

I’ve also been cat- fished pretty bad.

I was on Omegle, it’s a web site that has “chat roulette,” you get paired with a stranger and it doesn’t show information or gender, so it’s easy to be tricked and I got set up with someone I thought was a 16- year- old girl. That’s what the person said and when I was chatting with her, after a couple of days, she said, “I’ ll send some nude photos if you send some.”

That’s an awesome deal, I thought. So I sent mine … she said her camera wasn’t working. A couple of pic- tures in, I realized she could be a 40-year-old man for all I know. There could be naked pictures of me around the deep web.

I’ve sent nudes of myself since, and it’s a little embarrassing knowing that’s it out there, but at least from that point on, all nudes that I’ve sent are with people I know.

It’s like anything – you can walk to the gas station and run the risk of being kidnapped, but that’s not a reason not to go on. There’s a lot of cool stuff on social media and a lot of assholes.

A COUPLE OF PICTURES IN, I realized she could be a 40-year-old man for all I know.