Please Rob Me

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In this age of technology, we have social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to update where and what are we doing at this very moment with the help of the internet. It all seems so simple when we use them to keep in contact with people we know and in some instances become an easy way to stay in contact. I agree as I myself have a facebook account as well as twitter. They are awesome in a sense but there are some hidden dangers to it.

An example is when you tell people that you are NOT home.

I came across this site called Please Rob Me - A website that has creatively shown the pitfalls of updating your status of being away from you home and it will potentially be dangerous as some people might take advantage of this situation when using applications tellng people exactly where you are like Twitter and Foursquare(I do not think we use this application in Brunei though) .

These words that are shown below are directly from Please Rob Me and I am giving them the credit as they explain is so well (This is part of the why section which I have copy and pasted here )

"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. "

Interesting stuff I might say. This is definitely one way to increase awareness about putting up too much information. It makes you stop and think.

Here is the website if you wish to visit it : http://pleaserobme.com/