Robberies Cause By Facebook

Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:24

Written by Admin

Insurance agencies are looking at the social networking portals to check whether the robberies caused these days were due to the owner’s bad luck or bad measures. Several reports have shown that providing information regarding an impending vacation to a place and how one wouldn’t be able to meet anyone at their home (displaying the location of the house) has resulted in increased robberies. The insurance companies are rejecting claims after they receive the proof that the home owners had themselves given blood to the sharks via social networking. Moreover, the problem isn't finished as reports are showing that thousands of people leave their homes unsafe after displaying their vacation details on Facebook and Twitter.

The surveys of more than three thousand people in Britain’s social networking community showed than more than thirty percent of the people intimated their friends and relatives about their vacation and holidays which was taken up by burglars. Moreover, more than forty percent think that even information conveyed by their friends resulted in their home being unsafe from a probable burglary or raid.

Although a major portion of the agencies aren’t going into the profiles of the robbed a time might come when they would check whether the robbery was because of the robber’s skill and luck or because of the owner’s dimwittedness. Considering the business that the insurance people are in it might be safe to say that displaying vacation details online can result in being burgled and loss of insurance in the near future.

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