How Facebook can lead to robbery

Social networking can lead to alot of trouble. ;) Funny and scary at the same time. Imagine something going wrong with just one status update. You never know what your update will leads to.

Social networking can lead to a lot of trouble. 😉 Funny and scary at the same time. Imagine something going wrong with just one status update. You never know what your update will lead to.

Updating status with a line saying “I am out for a vacation” or “I wont be home till next week” can lead you getting robbed . These days burglars search the social networking site to see who is out-of-town and prone to robbery. Police busted a bunch of burglars and they said they used Facebook as a tool to gather intelligence on who is home and who is not home. 🙂 One should always be extra careful while using such social networking sites.

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To prevent such things :

  • Avoid such updates all together.
  • If at all you are updating, change the privacy settings of your account. Make your post visible to only a certain number of people.

Facebook provides lots of privacy settings for your account, so keep searching new ways to be safe and enjoy problem free Facebook 🙂 How many privacy settings do you know about? What all should be kept in mind? Share your interesting views with me through the comments. 🙂