Lots of info. but so hard to make sense of what Mekayla was trying to achieve with all those phone calls, comments about going on vacation, going from store to store ect!
From link.
"Bali’s friends said she communicated with people through social media: Instagram, Snapchat and possibly an anonymous app called Kik.
Police in Canada have warned parents that the Kik is used by predators to groom young women, adding that it has fewer parental controls and allows strangers to contact strangers without any initial approval such as agreeing to be “friends.” The FBI is looking at what role Kik may have played in the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl from Virginia.
Zawislak said police have to go through U.S. legal processes to get information protected by social media companies under U.S. privacy laws.
“That is something as investigators we are dealing with more and more. People are constantly active on Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, there’s tons of apps out there that people can access and communicate with,” Zawislak said.
In some cases, Zawislak said, the information doesn’t exist because it was never stored by the company or only retained for a short time before it is destroyed.
Liang said using social media to chat with people in other places is not that unusual. She has done it herself, although she stresses she would never have agreed to meet anyone.
Bali's known social media accounts went silent, but they remain live. One Instagram account under her name has hundreds of followers but no photos, indicating there may have been pictures that have since been deleted. The “about me” section simply says “Goodbye.”
