I just read a blog post in which the dangers of using geo-location applications were presented. Telling people where you are at any given moment is an invitation to being robbed or otherwise victimized, this fellow says. You're telling people that you're not home, after all, which invites them to go rob your house!
Danger! Danger!
OK, well, we all know this is possible. Just as we all know that you can be mugged while walking on the street in New York at night. And, remember all the urban legends about the robbers who comb the obits to burglarize the houses of the grief-stricken?
But my question is this: how many people have been involved in criminal activity as a result of, say, Foursquare?
Of the millions of location status updates (hundreds of millions?), how many have led to problems?
I don't know the answer to that question but as someone who follows social media very closely, I'm not hearing about alarming stories.
Am I just missing them?
It's easy to imagine nefarious uses for anything but the realities are often very different.
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