Twitter For Thieves?
Comments(0) Have you ever been concerned about how much information is included in Tweets on Twitter and how much people share about themselves and their movements or whereabouts? I know I tweet sometimes about what I’m doing and where I travel to, but I never thought about the implications of what I publish, until now. We should be paying more attention to what we publish about ourselves and our movements, because it could lead to us being monitored tracked and even robbed.
An example of this, as reported on Mashable is Izzyvideo, real name Israel Hyman. Israel took a trip with his family recently and published tweets about his trip, when he returned home, his house had been robbed. Although the police have yet to directly link the robbery to his tweets and Twitter, both Israel and the local media have linked the robbery to his history of tweeting.
So I think the lesson in this for all of us, is to be aware of what we publish and how much personal information we put out into the public domain. Robbers and Predators have every reason to be aware of the sharing element of the social media craze, lets not give them anything they can use to make our lives miserable.
So now you have been warned. Take Care.
