I read about the popular site, Please Rob Me, on Joan Stewart‘s (aka, The Publicity Hound) blog.
Please Rob Me publicizes “opportunities” for robbing “recent empty homes” of those who announce their whereabouts via the foursquare app on their cell phone.
If you set foursquare to automatically broadcast your location to your Facebook and Twitter friends, your update is routed to a scrolling list on PleaseRobMe.com’s home page.
“Dozens of new messages appear each minute,” writes Joan. [I checked; she's right.]
Please Rob Me is not intended to help bad guys break into your home while you’re away — the site’s goal is to raise awareness about online privacy issues. Hopefully, it’ll help rabid networkers make wise decisions about how much personal information they reveal in their updates.
What about you? Do you tell your peeps where you are 24/7? Or do you set firm boundaries around how much you reveal about your whereabouts?
