PrincessLeppard
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Are robbers really trolling facebook for people to rob? I'm skeptical.
Are robbers really trolling facebook for people to rob? I'm skeptical.
I just think it's foolish, if nothing else. Why would anyone publish that they are going away? Why not just invite robbers to come to your house !
Are robbers really trolling facebook for people to rob? I'm skeptical.
Yeah, I am, too.
And this airline thing is completely voluntary. If the idea freaks you out, don't participate.
As someone said upthread, there are far easier ways to identify targets for theft than Facebook.
The new timeline feature on facebook is awful. I hate it. I hope the home page never ever looks like that. It makes me never want to visit other people's pages.
So let's think this through. The person that sees that information is also travelling (and has let people know that too), so they'd have to pass on the info to someone else. That person would then have to figure out the home address of the first person - sometimes that's easy if the name is unusual or they are from a small town, but usually it's not. Then, once you find the house, assuming you know how long the resident will be away, you take the chance that there might be someone else living there, or staying at the house to look after it, or neighbours might be also watching it. There could easily be an alarm system, and who's to say the house has anything worth stealing?
As someone said upthread, there are far easier ways to identify targets for theft than Facebook.
I'm going to the grocery store in case anyone wants to rob my house. You'll need to figure out what town I'm in, get here, find my address and hope that the neighbors in our four-plex don't notice you. At least two of them are home and the landlady next door knows not only us, but the other people allowed to have keys. You have about 20 minutes.
Good luck.
Seriously, old-fashioned casing of a house is going to be a much more efficient way of robbing people than finding info online on FB or a forum.
If you know someone's name, there are about a dozen web services that will give you their address with more ease than using Facebook. And someone's occupation is probably a better indication of their degree of wealth, so I'd use Linkedin, if I were going to start my career as a burgler.Make fun, but there is a lot of information on many people's FB pages. Often the town they live in. With a first and last name and a town, it would not be that difficult to find an address.
^^ Yeah, because people who rob houses had never thought to use the internet as a resource. Not all robberies are impulse, some are planned. You'd all be surprised at how easy it is to find out information, if you have motivation.
I think the point is that there are much easier ways to plan a home theft through the internet than by using Facebook.
I understand that. I I am not saying that there aren't many ways to plan a robbery. I'm simply suggesting that publishing the dates and times of your trip, might not be a good idea. We really have no way of knowing who reads these posts. I don't know how secure the airline's "sit next to" site is. It is also rather odd that they are doing this now. Weren't plane manifests always considered confidential?
Does this happen to anyone else? You're reading the posts on your wall, you screen down a few sections and...BLIP! You're back at the top of the page. So you scroll down, go a few more sections and then again, you're back at the top of the page!
Makes reading your wall take longer than is necessary. (And it's irritating!!)
Any other info about how to rob people through the world wide web? My new career plans are coming along nicely!
Does this happen to anyone else? You're reading the posts on your wall, you screen down a few sections and...BLIP! You're back at the top of the page. So you scroll down, go a few more sections and then again, you're back at the top of the page!
Makes reading your wall take longer than is necessary. (And it's irritating!!)