{"id":3495,"date":"2013-06-28T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2022-02-02T20:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:31:29","slug":"sharing-your-summer-vacation-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/sharing-your-summer-vacation-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Your Summer Vacation Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3496\"><\/a>Summer is the time when most U.S. citizens choose to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/2013-record-international-travel-predicted\/\" title=\"Travel Abroad\">travel abroad<\/a> especially for family vacations and for students participating in international study programs. Unfortunately, with the increase in summer travel there is also an increase in home burglaries and scams.\u00a0 According to the FBI, burglary rates overall increase around 10 percent in the summer months of July and August.\u00a0 Furthermore, many cyber thieves troll social networks for personal information that can be used in online fraud scams.<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey by MoneyGram, about one-third of consumers aged 18-49 post details about their vacations on social media before or during their trip.\u00a0 Sharing summer travel plans can be an invitation for criminals to target family members with the \u201crelative in need scam,\u201d warns\u00a0MoneyGram.\u00a0 This scam typically targets family\u00a0\u00a0 friends of individuals who are traveling on vacation, asking for their help solve a crisis or catastrophe the traveler is going through.\u00a0 The scammer asks for money to be sent immediately, through a money transfer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Share Your Vacation Experience\u2026With Limited Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With cyber thieves trolling social network sites as a way to extract sensitive information about their victims, it\u2019s more important than ever to be aware of your account settings in the social media channels that you are active in.\u00a0 Think first before you tweet it, pin it, or post it.\u00a0 Here are a few tips to keep in mind when talking about your vacation in social channels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t include details about the dates you will be gone<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t post your flight information<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t \u201ccheck-in\u201d to location-based services (i.e. Foursquare, Facebook Places)<\/li>\n<li>Only share photos with people you trust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Know Your Facebook Account Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much of the content that populates your social media profiles is public for the world to see, unless you take th<a href=\"\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3497\"><\/a>e time to adjust your account settings.\u00a0 Some of the Facebook settings that that you should check out before posting photos or other details about your vacation include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Who can see my stuff?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By default, your posts are public for all to see.\u00a0 This option can be changed from the \u201cPrivacy Settings and Tools\u201d account setting.\u00a0 Alternately, you can change the privacy level of your posts using a fairly new feature called the \u201cAudience Selector\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Who can look me up?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By default this value is \u201cEveryone\u201d.\u00a0 Change the setting to Friends or Friends of Friends to limit the number of users who can see the email address and phone number associated with your account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Custom Lists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another option is to create custom lists of specific people who are allowed to see your content.\u00a0 Each time you post, you have the option to select the audience who sees your content.<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself by being smart about how you are using social media leading up to your summer vacation and while you are on vacation.\u00a0 While there are precautions that you can take within your social media account settings to ensure that certain elements of your profile remains private, your best bet is to share your vacation photos after you have returned home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is the time when most U.S. citizens choose to travel abroad especially for family vacations and for students participating in international study programs. Unfortunately, with the increase in summer travel there is also an increase in home burglaries and scams.\u00a0 According to the FBI, burglary rates overall increase around 10 percent in the summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[353,354,128,46],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-warnings","tag-caution","tag-posting","tag-social-media","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13052,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/13052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}