Unfortunately, over-sharing of this variety has been known to cause adverse side effects. Most recently, Israel Hyman (@izzyvideo), a video podcaster, took a trip to the midwest with his family and twittered about the excursion. He came home to find that his house had been burglarized.
Although the police on the case have yet to directly link the break-in to Hyman's tweet, both the Arizona media and Hyman himself have been quick to link up the incident with his past Twitter behavior.
Regardless of whether or not this incident was a direct result of Hyman's tweet, the issue of sharing exactly what you're doing in the public domain is certainly one that most of us can relate to. Burglars and other would-be predators have every reason to be hip to the social media craze, especially given the wealth of real-time information we all make readily available. The more we tweet, the more we all need to be conscious of what information we're making available and try and not put ourselves at risk.
You can watch the Associated Press video below for more details, where Hyman indicates that he has no plans to quit tweeting, but says that he will be more careful about the information he shares.