Posting Information Online

Posting Personal Information Online

By Elton Camp

What facts would you share if you meet
Some unknown person out on the street?

Your interests, work, home & vacation plans
Would you place into his outstretched hands?

Yet, such information posted to a social site
Can be, to one who wants to harm us, a delight

How private will such material actually be?
How can we know who may come to see?

If you wouldn’t put it onto a public bulletin board
Releasing the material online is sure to be abhorred

The reader may be a swindler or a sex pervert
Who will use the things we post to our hurt

So just simply ignore this advice if you will
But be aware that some crook it may so thrill
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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