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Are you inviting someone to rob your home?
ByIf you think installing some antivirus software is all it takes to protect yourself during your online activities, you might want to think again.
Facebook and Twitter are fun tools for social networking but it’s amazing to see how many people are completely careless when updating their status.
When you’re on the computer talking with friends and family on Facebook, being a victim of a robbery is probably the farthest thing from your mind, but it shouldn’t be.
Are your privacy settings configured so that only friends can see your status updates and information?
If you have hundreds of followers or friends do you know each of them on a personal level? Or are some of them just friends of friends?
If your status updates are viewable by just anyone and you have your hometown on your profile along with photos of your home, how long do you think it would take someone with ill intentions to find your property?
How long would they have to wait for you to post a status update telling the world that you’re going shopping or on a five day vacation?
I see this all the time – people counting down the days until they go on an extended trip or telling their “friends” how long they’ll be out running errands.
Meanwhile, I can look at their photos and see what their home looks like from the outside and interior photos give me a good idea of the contents of the home as well as how the house is laid out.
This combination is asking for trouble.
The same goes on Twitter though it’s not quite as dangerous because of the amount of information you may be sharing in comparison to Facebook where many people provide their phone number, physical address and even their children’s names. That’s giving a bad guy an awful lot of information.
Our locksmith shop in Berkeley carries a variety of security products that can help protect your home but you should try not to invite a burglar right into your home by telling them when you’ll be gone!
2 Comments
July 30th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Whenever you buy a resale house, used vehicle, rent an office, rent a house or an apartment, you would like to feel safe and be sure that you are the only person who can use the key to enter your property. However somebody who you don’t know can have the key, and this person can easily access your property. In order to prevent this unnecessary risk and concern you should consider rekeying your locks in your home, your vehicle, office or apartment.
August 24th, 2010 at 1:43 am
The first thing you probably think of when you think of a locksmith is getting locked out of your car. This is only the most common locksmith service, but a locksmith can do many things for your home as well. Unfortunately, most of these services happen under unfortunate circumstances: changing the locks to keep out unwelcome guests, being locked out of your home, and inspecting your house after a burglary, earthquake, or fire. Traditionally, locksmiths have been thought of as artisans. It’s easy to imagine the first locks and locksmiths being seen as having mystical powers. Today, new locks and locking technology have expanded the prerequisite knowledge of the locksmith profession exponentially.