So I went to their site, and figured out how it works. And I set up a search for my local area. Now I can easily see who in my local area is not home. It certainly brings the robbing me issue closer to home.

Now the question is, what do I do about it? I’m not sure I need to do anything. My thinking goes like this..

1. Most of the time I check in, I am out of town at a conference. This is obvious by my earlier tweets, anyway. Am I putting my wife and daughters at greater risk?

2. Is anyone really reading that stuff anyway?

3. Shouldn’t I just protect my updates and not worry so much?

How do you all handle it that travel a lot? I confess I like to see folks check-in. It gives me a personal flavor to their tweets. And for me, Twitter is inherently personal.