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Sanity Check Number Seven:

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Do you ever post information about your geographic locations, past, present or future?

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G eography

Some social media sites are moving users towards a geographic paradigm. This can involve putting your posts and images on a timeline and inviting you to add more information, such as the geographic location you were in. Why would you want to put that online? Your real friends probably know where you were anyway and you wouldn’t want to tell strangers these facts about you, would you? After all, your movements in the past might serve as clues to your likely movements in the future.

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