Could a simple tweet telling your friends and followers what you’re doing result in being robbed? Yes!
According to the site PleaseRobMe.com (clever name), they certainly think so. The website is not attended to get people to rob your house but to bring awareness to how you should rethink your twitter posts. To give you an example of what the website does check out the screen capture I just posted below:
Because most twitter users like myself decide not to set post privately our twitter feed is an open market. Imagine if someone knew where you lived and for whatever reason didn’t like you. If you tweet something like, “Going to Hawaii all next week. Can’t wait!”. Now that person knows exactly where you’ll be and has plenty of time to rob you.
Now this post wasn’t suppose to scare you and stop you from using Twitter, but just be more aware of what your doing in your day to day social media. Many are willing to give out their personal minute to minute information without realizing the consequences.
Do you agree with the site PleaseRobMe.com or do you find it ridiculous? Me personally, I feel it’s a wake up call. If anything it made me more aware. Oh, and if you don’t believe criminals are using things like Twitter to find out where people are then just ask Paris Hilton. She was robbed by her supposed friends because they knew whether or not she was out of the house or not.
F’ed up!
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