I always wondered about this. ZDNet is reporting that an Arizona Video Editor is attributing the way he uses Facebook and Twitter may have given burglars the high-sign to come into his home and steal his video editing equipment. While there is no way to be sure that his posting information to his Twitter and Facebook accounts, his posting detailing his trip to his friends may have been a heads up to the burglars. An article by Anne Wallace Allen for the Associated Press details this particular situation.
A lot of things would have to come together for a burglar to use your online postings to gauge when to take advantage your not being home. First they would have to know who you are, where you live and need to be monitoring you to see when the best time to sneak into your home. But, it probably wouldn’t hurt to be careful though.
As Sam Diaz of ZDNet said: “Still, it makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Next time I head out on a vacation, I pledge to not tell my Facebook friends and Twitter followers that I’m leaving. The last thing I need is to come hone to a ransacked house.”