Not using any location services won’t do much to protect you from being robbed?  Really?  Are you that stupid?  Just as dumb as those two iGeniuss who got married in an Apple Store?  Lets take a lookey at the following scenarios for a quick minute why don’t we…

I leave my lights off because maybe I’m getting ready to go to bead, and then I may not bother answering the phone for the same reason, or don’t want to be pestered by YAMS (Yet Another Marketing Schmuck).  So here we go.

Joe Robber – Robbing My House

1. He calls my home phone number (how he got it is pointless, that part is easy) and says “ohhh, no answer, he’s not home”
2. He then drives up to my house and says “lights off, hes not home, yessss”
3. He then proceeds to sneak around back and do some hacking 1.0 to get into my house
4. I hear him from my bed upstairs, stomp my 6′4″ body down the stairs wondering WTF is going on
5. Joe runs away, scared before he even sees me because, he DID NOT KNOW I was home.

Joe Robber – Using PleaseRobMe.com or other methods

1. He sees in real-time that I have just left my home and KNOWS that I’m not at home.
2. He then robs my home

As Homer Simpson would say, “DOH!”  That simple, that simple to NOT USE any location service to PROTECT me from being robbed.  It’s that simple to NOT post personal information online, don’t be a Homer.

In the context of the internet, personal information is not “what you like” as other people don’t truly care about that data (companies yes, people no).  Personal is “who you are, what you do, and where you do it”, never ever forget that and think twice about publishing it.

So, how about you, thinking twice about sharing your coordinates?