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Read more.UK users will now be able to share their location with Facebook friends.
This is the "please come and burgle my home" setting, correct?
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No, as you tag public places. You can create your own home as a "Tag" but if you do that you might as well leave the door unlocked with landing lights guiding people in.
But surely, by announcing you're at said public place, you're revealing there's nobody home...Originally Posted by Merson
That's very true
I can't see why people see this as a problem?
More than one person often lives in a house, so if one is out, doesn't mean you can break in and steal everything.
Even if your house was empty, and you posted on facebook "at the cinema" or something, your friends would know your house was then empty? Not sure about you, but I have friends on facebook, they wouldn't rob my house.
It's private, so only friends can see my status updates, so random people couldn't find out when im not home and steal everything.
Seems like something out of nothing, the only possible was it could affect people is due to user error, not reading the privacy settings correctly, if so, it's deserved.
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People announce when they're going on holiday or out on the lash via status updates all the time, this is no different to announcing your location in terms of being robbed. Seem like much ado about nothing.
As long as your privacy settings aren't compeltely open, you'd hope that none of your 'friends' would go round and burgle your house!!
LOL
dont you just love all the facebook bashing, seems to me that anything facebook does is now being questioned. first pictures, then status, now location, i wonder whats next
and even bigger LOL to who ever come up with the braking in to the house nonsense. LMAO
our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^
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Wondering where the house breaking "nonsense" came from? Well, according to that little known site "Hexus"http://http://channel.hexus.net/cont...php?item=26465 says Confused.com has highlighted a burglary spree in the US. A burglary ring in New Hampshire reportedly targeted people who had ‘checked-in' to venues via Facebook Places, effectively advertising the fact they were not at home leaving the thieves to break into 50 homes and nick about $100,000 of stuff before they were caught. (in case you were too busy playing Farmville and missed it).
Not that this is likely to effect me - despite lots of prodding from others, I wouldn't touch Farcebook with the proverbial 10 foot barge pole - I just can't see a use for the time spent. Much better - for me at least - to use Twitter and forums (such as this one), but - of course - ymmv.
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Last edited by Georgy291; 18-09-2010 at 01:55 PM.
our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^
"xxxxx is at Pizza Hut with mother and father". I actually seen this on my Facebook last night by the way, and she's an only child.
Then you hover over it and it tells you where her house is with directions to get there. Burglars dream really.
My first experience of this was when a mate posted he was in tesco metro...riveting stuff!
How does this work? Does it use wifi in the area, 3G, GPS? Or do you have to actually tell it where you are?
Can anyone think of a practical use for this?
Creates a bit of hype around Facebook?
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