Checking In?

Tweeting your location and using the Social Game App Foursquare is all the rage in recent months and is quickly gaining steam. For those of you who don't know, Twitter is a social site to "Let your friends know what you're doing now." Foursquare has a similar premise; to let users "check in" to venues around there city in order to unlock badges, gain points, become "mayor" (the person that visits a certain venue the most times), and see who else is at the venue with you. These aren't meant for any malicious purposes, but for entertainment... but could it be used for something bad?

Please Rob Me

The website Please Rob Me, is intended to raise awareness about privacy. Please Rob Me is a dressed up twitter search page which searchers and displays who check's in using Foursquare. Are you giving an open invitation to be robbed? Can you trust that person you just met during the last "tweetup" you attended? Although chances are slim, sites like this demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to use the information that you post publicly to the world against you.

About Aaron

Computer Instructor for J. Ryan Solutions, a company which manages computer labs in housing developments throughout the city of Boston, Cambridge, and in the Washington, DC area.