Check my history.

j razz

it's sad burglers are now thinking of this: that was one of my first thoughts about telling people everything you're doing. It's even sadder people will happily tell you every stupid detail of their life & be surprised when everybody knows what/who they're doing!

i think it's quite enterprising of the burglars - damn sight better than having a home invasion....

i really can't grasp the mentality of people who use twitter, i found my short time on facebook equally stultifying - goodness doesn't anyone actually have a life nowadays, and if they do, do they really think anyone else is interested, and if they are, god help them find a life of their own...

(yeah, i know, my life is on this ng ;-))

thanks to facebook, my wife finds out the excuses her mom doesn't come by & see her new grandson. Yeah, the "I don't have any vacation left" doesn't work when you post on twitter "every month we're going on vacation to PA to visit my nephew". We're 3 hours north from the nephew (and she's traveling 8 hours to get to PA). :/

Talking of facebook, check out 10 privacy settings every facebook user should know. Especially number 4!!! I'm still surprised that the default behaviour allows that. I wonder how many people have lost jobs/partners over that.

Managed to avoid twitter until now, and somehow I feel I'm not really missing much.

I have a webhost to put up pic's,videos for family to see. Good enough & the entire world isn't invited to see it!

Thanks Nick Hope for that link, found a few FB privacy settings I wasn't aware of.

As a Ham Radio Operator, some 15 years ago I stopped putting call plates on my vehicles
when it became posible for someone to drive around with a laptop and look up your address
by doing a search on your call. I never ceases to amaze me just how stupid people are when
it comes to their security.

Terry

So what if someone "knows" where you live, seriously?

So what if someone "knows" where you live, seriously?

I was living in a city where burglars were reading the obits, which told them exactly when the family would not be home. Driving with, in effect, one's address on the car could provide a similar invitation.

There will always be crime and in hindsight it is always preventable. So what? Live in a bomb shelter in Montana?

I am not a social networking advocate but I can certainly see positive aspects. More than once I've had opportunities to see old friends simply because I happened to check my facebook page. A twittering client ended up getting me two jobs while we were working together because they were really pleased with the experience and they have lots of followers in the same business. Exposure comes with risk but it also has rewards.

Be prudent but don't be a prude.

it's sad burglers are now thinking of this:

In the old days, they'd just check the obit column in the newspaper.
Like everyone else, crooks are "getting with the technology" :-(

Mike

Exposure comes with risk but it also has rewards.

The issue at hand is telling the world when you're house will be empty & the dog's in the kennel. Noone said they're not great marketing tools or great for spreading info you want others to share (IE here's our new born son, check out the new car, this store has excellent service, etc).

I agree I wouldn't Twitter my home address and the fact that I'll be going on vacation for a week, but Twitter is a little from Facebook in that you can select who sees your Facebook updates.

All my FB friends know me, where I live, and when I go on vacation or whatever.

And besides that, what I meant before about "what does it matter if someone knows where you live", I meant more like on this forum, so what if you knew where "dibbkd" lives, what's it matter?

Are you going to drive to NC and steal my copy of Vegas? Or say you knew I had a super fancy camera (I don't), should I be worried someone on this forum would come find me and steal it?

Seriously, you'd be better off breaking into a random neighbors house and stealing their LCD, PC, and gold rings.

The one case I guess I would be worried about is say you piss someone off online, and they happen to be so mad at you and live within driving distance, maybe they'd come slash your tires?