Please Rob Me
  Posted by Anthony E. Zuiker on Feb 18, 2010

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I love social networking. I mean, obviously, look at where you’re reading this. However, I can imagine that there are some downsides, namely when someone decides to take advantage of you putting everything about yourself online.

Here comes a new website called ‘Please Rob Me’.  Their aim is to make online tell-alls aware of the potential downside to public location-sharing.

As they explain: "The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you're definitely not... home. So here we are; on one end we're leaving lights on when we're going on a holiday, and on the other we're telling everybody on the internet we're not home. It gets even worse if you have "friends" who want to colonize your house. That means they have to enter your address, to tell everyone where they are. Your address.. on the internet.. Now you know what to do when people reach for their phone as soon as they enter your home. That's right, slap them across the face."

Next time, maybe you’ll think twice about tweeting where you are.

Zuiker

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