With billions of active accounts across multiple social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and more, user-generated content is being generated at an amazing pace.

And it has become so integrated into both our personal and professional lives and so normalized that some people aren’t always careful about what they post to potentially millions of viewers. In the last two years, 52 percent of lawyers have reported an increase in lawsuits related to postings, images and data from social media and mobile devices, according to a study from Robert Half. So much so, that social media evidence is now routinely requested in discovery.

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