Be careful! On your Twitter account settings, check your settings.
It’s always smart to avoid posting your location (I know, I’m sorry Foursquare users). If the Internet knows you aren’t home, it makes it much easier for someone to rob your house.
While I definitely think that location tagging has its time and place (I love to location tag on vacation or when out with friends, especially checking in at Facebook events), I think it’s a great idea to make sure that you, the user, are in control of when and where you’re revealing your location. Looking at the Google Buzz layer on Google Maps, just in a brief glimpse, I could tell exactly where a few users lived based on concentration of tweets. I could even tell the bus route one of them used to get to campus. If I wanted to rob his house (say he’d just tweeted about buying a brand new Mac or plasma tv) or to stalk him, he basically laid out a Marauder’s Map just for me. Or anyone.
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crystalsocialmedia reblogged this from emmacunningham and added:
While I definitely think that...tagging has its time and place
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