Since I didn’t provide my own experience - no social media until high school, we checked the privacy setting and monitored output, etc. However, our kid’s photo appeared in her middle school and high school social media pages, because she was active in different regional competitions. My kid’s photo also appeared on the high school’s social media pages when she got her scholarship (during her senior year of high school), along with the other three kids who got the scholarship (a photo of the four of them). She was also politically active during high school, so keeping her face out of media in her senior year of high school was unlikely, and by her freshman year of college, she had a LinkedIn page.
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Also athletes have their pictures on the internet all over the place, including school rosters. Although this is more true for college than high school, that’s kind of irrelevant if one is worried about the dark web.
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Note that some people on social media do not put their photos, or put photos which their real-life friends would recognize as them but where their facial features are at least partially obscured or not visible (example, photo showing them playing a sport that their real-life friends know that they play, but their face is turned away in that photo).
However, it is hard to control other people tagging you in photos that they post.
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