Are we giving too much information on the web
Are we too eager and willing to share personal inormation on social networking sites ?
A new website, which aims to highlight the dangers of sharing information about your location on social networking sites, has been branded "irresponsible".
Pleaserobme.com pulls together updates on Twitter from people who broadcast where they are at any given time, reports the Daily Telegraph.
It says it is making the point that if people are telling the world they are not at home, they are leaving themselves open to be burgled.
The Dutch website lists "all those empty homes out there" and providing a running total of "new opportunities".
The developers of the site took just a few hours to put up the site after thousands began posting updates about where they are in the online social game Foursquare.
Users of Foursquare, a Twitter-type application, check in on their mobile phone to record their position on a map, indicating where they are - and where they are not.
Website developers Boy Van Amstel, Frank Groeneveld and Barry Borsboom said they did not want to encourage criminals, only to remind people that sharing information on the internet carried its own risks.
They say on the site: "Our intention is not, and never has been, to have people burglarised. 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."
So far, people I know who uses Twitter are like putting up a friendship-wide SMS message that can only be connected or received through the friend's mobile phones (that's why it 'tweets' a message like a bird). Only a proud rich popular guy/gal will probably stupidly tell it on Twitter addictively, like almost every minute, where he/she's going to leave his/her homes unattended or closed.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
uh oh... Let me reconsider...
"Live with passion, Die with style"
Yes you can, but I will have to put you in a Kendo Saggiknackers Choke Hold first..
Since you are AbuAmerican, can I be the pink loving, Kia driving, Ramada lover Britexpat?
"Live with passion, Die with style"
From now on I am Abu American..
No one mess with me now please...
drmana ..twitter is very helpfull atleast business wise.. but some of the even postes status like "oops i just farted"
now dats silly..
day by day better firewalls are being developed and being bypassed by da hackers at da same tym...
little example..A-Virus progs. don't stop downloading virus definitions because these developers keep track of new way of attacks.
PM.
Maybe 'some' people think that something wonderful will happen in their pathetic lives.
Why did you make a new id to post this?
What happened to your other id?
"Live with passion, Die with style"
personal info?
i want to say i love u to my girlalala
here in QL, but she sent me pm
not to mention her name or ql id:(
Sometimes one is too ego and is willing to disclose whatever happenings and events for the sake of showing off social status and personality display. The next time people will take the cue on like why some VIP makes an unannounced itinerary to avoid danger.
Perhaps life is too fast and this iks the only way to interact with people
I do not understand the concept of Twitter. Why would anyone want to know what other are doing at the moment or tell others what he/she is doing every moment to the whole world. That certainly is losing one's privacy by own will.
I understand status updates regarding one's mood or thought of the day but why to let the whole world know detailed update about our actions.
People ARE giving out too much information on the internet. Identity thefts are much easier to carry out and so are the robberies as mentioned above.
"Live with passion, Die with style"