Blogs, Twitter, Facebook…and one troubling trend. It generally looks something along these lines:

Bye for a while, Tweeps! We’re going to Venice for two weeks for much-needed R&R.

Argh! Just stop that sort of thing right now!

Right around the time I’m reading that from you or someone else I follow, I figure the local and not-so-local thieves are, too. The local ones who’ll take advantage of your absence by “taking care” of your home for you.

And the distant ones who’ll use the opportunity to hack your site or your accounts when you’re not looking, as they did to my logo designer David Airey a while back.

Please stop announcing your away-from-home plans on the world wide web. It is the worldwide web, after all.

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