More and more people are sharing on social media knowing they are being watched, but not knowing how much or how their data is being processed. Performing monitoring is resource intensive, both in terms of effort and calculation. This research looks at the scope of data collection and processing by demonstrating that data from Twitter and Reddit can only be acquired, processed, and stored in real-time utilizing a personal computer. The primary goal was to discover individual persons in the data stream using face recognition, but the obtained data may also be utilized for other purposes. We also considered ethical issues related to the collecting and processing of such data.