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How to Say 'Please Rob Me' on Twitter

By Bruce Carton

Most homeowners are familiar with the practice of putting certain lights in their home on a timer. The idea is that when they are on vacation or out of town, the lights will go on and off per the timer, hopefully giving any would-be robbers the impression that the house is still occupied rather than temporarily vacant. That makes sense. But would you ever do the opposite? Would you intentionally send a message out to the burglars of the world that you are not home and, further, tell them exactly where you were and when (i.e., "Attention criminal underworld: I'm at the beach right now, 1,000 miles from my house.")? You may not think you would do such a thing, but a new Web site that became a hot topic in the blogosphere yesterday has set out to demonstrate that hundreds of thousands of people are doing this everyday. As discussed in this post on TechCrunch, the provocatively named "Please Rob Me" has launched with the mission of raising awareness of a possible downside of using the new geolocation services such as Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz, etc. Those of you on Twitter have no doubt seen people using these services...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 18, 2010 (boomark / email).