If you are going out of town, would you hang a sign on your door stating that your home is empty? Most people have been doing just that! The meteoric rise in the use of social networking sites is having some unintended consequences.  One that is gaining a lot of attention is that by publicly posting online that you are on vacation or just away from home, you are declaring to the world that your home is currently empty!

This post was inspired by this article: Your Facebook profile: An open invite to Crime?

But most credit for raising awareness to this risk in the security of your home goes to Please Rob Me, which is a site that is now drawing a great deal of online media attention.

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