Twitter and Burglary

I tweeted about Foursquare, and @icklemichael wrote:

@t_locke Do you ever worry that advertising your location might encourage burglers?

and @rdzien wrote:

t_locke check out: http://pleaserobme.com/

People do ask me if I'm worried about telling everyone where I am, and I give a few responses:

  1. There are two other people living in my house, which makes it harder to find a time when nobody's in.

  2. I don't have anything worth stealing. Everything's worth a lot less these days due to cheap Chinese manufacturing.

  3. The only time my house has been broken into, it was by the police.