39-year-old Candace Landreth and 44-year-old Robert Landreth Jr. allegedly used Facebook to see which of their friends were out of town. If a post indicated a Facebook friend wasn't home, the two broke into that friend's house and liberated some of their belongings.
Posting out-of-town statuses is definitely a vacationing no-no, right up there with letting mail pile up in your mailbox or leaving your front door wide open. We'd note that even if your address isn't listed on Facebook, there are still, against all odds, paper phone books. If you must share your vacation with your Facebook, the lesson is this: post your pictures and joyous status updates after you get back. All that said, "my 60-inch Pioneer plasma TV was stolen while I was vacationing in the French Riviera; I bought two more in case of emergency" is kind of the perfect humble brag.
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via Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/post-smug-vacation-statuses-on-facebook-get-your-house-burgled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29
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