GeoHoliday Club Complaints Reduction Squad Provides Social Media Vacation Safety Tips
Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) July 23, 2013 -- GeoHoliday Club Complaints Reduction Squad is advising vacation goers to be careful what they say on social media, when they take their summer vacations this year. With the rise of social media has come the urge to post daily excursions to places like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. The problem with these services though, is that by posting to them a person is also letting others know they are not home, or may not be home for days. Some lurkers may even attempt to break into houses to steal property when the homeowners are out of town.
By sharing with the world a daily experience, there can be unforeseen consequences to the status updates, photographs, and tweets that people post out onto the internet. Unfortunately, many people give no thought to what they post on the internet while on vacation.
If social media postings must be made while traveling, GeoHoliday Club Complaints Reduction Squad recommends that families carefully limit what is said, especially from children's profiles. The last thing that a family wants to find when they come home from vacation is to discover their house was broken into and their belongings stolen. By avoiding sharing details about the dates that travelers will be away from home, they are limiting the chances that a criminal will stumble upon the information and decide to take advantage of it.
GeoHoliday Club Complaints Reduction Squad also points out that some social media programs automatically track user's location as they post. When a tweet shows up being posted from Florida, and the user typically posts from New York that is a sure indicator that the person is out of town for a while. Most social media accounts provide a means to disabling location updates.
GeoHoliday Club Complaints Reduction Squad suggests that travelers wait until they are home before they upload all of their vacation images and videos for their friends to see. Travelers should ask themselves if the slim benefits of uploading content immediately, outweighs the threats associated with telling strangers they are away from home. Of course some social media accounts can be locked down, and only approved individuals can access the information posted through those accounts, but just because someone is a friend on Twitter does not mean they are not a threat.
Representing a truly unique idea in personal vacation ownership, GeoHoliday Club provides luxurious accommodations to travelers all around the world. With over 25,000 members, GeoHoliday Club provides their members with a lifetime of exciting, affordable, and unique vacation experiences.
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