Can I just say this?
I have seen alot of these missing persons posts on Tumblr and it breaks my heart to think that maybe there's someone out there who is missing... But let Auntie Kitti tell Y'all a story. A few years ago, my (now) brother and I were going to a convention in Liverpool, UK. This was at the height of the Attack on Titan fandom and they had went as Mikasa. Now being the awesome big sister I am, I let him go off at the con to do as he pleased, I was angel from Ao no Exorcist and had a meet and he had an aot meet to get to so we knew we couldn't stay together all day. He had his phone, I had mine. Both of us had each other on speed dial AND we had established a meeting point for later that day. All went well and we met back up, had fun and all that cool con time jazz... Until later that night I log into Instagram to see something shocking. Someone had taken a picture of my brother and said that they were missing and that he was this other kid's sibling. Now I knew he was safe, he'd gone home the same time I did and I had made sure he'd went into the house. He was safe. But people were believing this kid and giving details about my sibling. My name, his dead name, his last seen place which was his address... Now this is horrifying enough but take into consideration that I am on a protective list due to history with certain types of people and my brother's biological father had threatened him previously to the point where our mum and my brother had to move... It could have seriously put him in danger. Luckily the kid got spooked when I got in touch with her and removed the information but what I'm worried about with seeing all these stories of people going missing... I get people want to help, I do too... But you might want to consider the possibility you could be putting them in more danger by giving Information out. Find them, yes definitely but please... Be careful. My brother was, at the time (and I hate to say this but he was only about 13,14 at the time) born female and, while he has come out as trans, there's a history in Liverpool especially of kids being taken (just Google Jamie Bulger and you will see what I mean) Please think before you give out information... I don't wish for anyone to not help, or for people to stand by and do nothing, I just want to make sure people know that there is absolutely no guarantee that the Information you give is going where you want it to be. Sorry for the rant... I got worried.
