There are many people that after becoming incarcerated are released each and every day from prison through the process of parole, in which their "freedom" is permitted as long as they demonstrate their compliance with their parole conditions, which typically involve restrictions such as no illicit drug usage, and no contact with other criminals, and so on. The adherence to such restrictions was significantly easier to pull off before the age of social media and cell phones, because in order for the judicial system to really know what you were up to, they previously would have had to deliberately track you, or follow you, but nowadays your social media account and your cell phone are pretty much your on-person spy tool that will tell everything about you, so that things that may involve a momentary indiscretion, are stored, for possible review by judicial authorities.
This would indicate strongly, all things being equal, that parolees do not want to have any social media account, whatsoever, nor do they want anything but the simplest cell phone that does not track the individual via GPS, has no on-line access, no stored images, but basically serves as a way to talk to other individuals, of which, all of these individuals are on the up-and-up. Of course, humans have a natural capacity to want to communicate with each other, to congregate, to do things, especially with like-minded individuals, and do not naturally gravitate to a non-social controlled life, especially considering the very person that is incarcerated in the first place is someone that probably doesn't have either the best habits or the best character.
The very first thing that all parolees should be distinctly aware of, is the fact that as a condition of their parole, their social media accounts will/can be monitored by judicial authorities, as well as the knowledge that private social media setting or not, that they should suspect that even their password or privacy setting is susceptible to those authorities, for once, you hear words to the effect that your parole will be revoked, if you do not release your password, you are betwixt and between. In regards to your cell phone, the smarter that it is, the more data that can be retrieved by authorities against you, signifying that everywhere that you have been, every conversation, every picture, every text, every contact, is susceptible to judicial authorities, so if you are not completely clean, than your smart phone, is pretty much the death of you.
You might wonder, how this is all true, how that your Fourth Amendment rights, which protects an individual from warrantless searches, has become somehowforfeited , but the simple answer is that upon the condition of your parole, you have agreed to surrender these rights, to waiver those rights, in order to have this reduced version of freedom. The problem is that, social media and smart phones are like having big brother 24/7 broadcasting your life to judicial authorities, whereas, twenty years ago these things simply didn't exist. This means, and the justice system knows this, that pretty much at any time for any parolee, if you provoke them, if you annoy them, if they are busybodies, you can easily be targeted, and almost without exception, be guilty of some sort of parole violation and therefore subject to immediate re-incarceration.
Is this a good thing? For those that do not desire a ubiquitous police state, definitely not, for if, somehow, there comes a time when the government is explicitly permitted to monitor everyone and everything, guilty or not, convict or not, incarcerated or not, parolee or not, then they have the power to deliberately target those that are a nuisance, those that are a hindrance, those that are an annoyance, and everyone so targeted, given enough time and invasive searching by the judicial authorities, will be found guilty of some crime, so that legitimate social protest and minority viewpoints will be eradicated, and this land of freedom will be no more.