TONAWANDA, N.Y. -- With social media omnipresent in the lives of teenagers, so-called "hoax threats" have increased across Western New York by more than 400 percent since the Florida school shooting in February, according to the FBI.

"It happens so much it kind of becomes normal to see it. You're not like 'oh my God,' you're like, 'oh another one,' said Adrianna Provenzano, Kenmore West High School senior.

No matter the intent, questionable posts are thoroughly investigated, schools are evacuated, and nearly each time, the person who made it should have thought of the FBI's advice: #ThinkBeforeYouPost. That's what high school seniors in the criminal justice program at Erie 1 BOCES learned; that making the threat is a felony which carries a max sentence of five years in prison.

"Resources are utilized to make sure that threat isn't true, isn't real and as a result of that individuals responsible for having those resources deployed need to be held responsible, even if they're 15 or 16 years old," said Dempsey.

There's another component of #ThinkBeforeYouPost: Having these students relay the message to their classmates, and remind them if they see something, say something.

"I think people don't want to be the snitch or they're too afraid if they say something, 'oh everyone's going to know I said it,' but if everyone else's lives are at stake, especially with school shootings, it's important to be that person that stands up," said Megan Stanley, a senior at Grand Island High School.