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Electronic House Magazine will be featuring St. James, NC home builder Mark Johnson Custom Homes’ LEED Platinum home in its October 2009 issue. The issue will showcase in particular The Energy Detective, the energy monitoring system used in the home. System design and insulation was done by Wilmington, NC’s premier low voltage audio/video/lighting integration company, Electronics2You. The issue will hit newsstands next month, but for a sneak preview of the article, click here.

In a time where 20 million Americans are on Twitter, over 55 million have Facebook accounts, and 35 million are on LinkedIn, it’s easy to see how social media is changing the way we live. Companies utilize social media as an effective marketing tool, individuals use it as a way to keep in touch with loved ones and it is an excellent networking device. But when your personal life becomes public, caution should be taken with what and how much information you post on the internet.

Status updates on Facebook and Tweets on Twitter are a quick and easy way to post information, such as a website link or a YouTube video. But what is most common are the answers to “What’s on your mind”, which is on your personal Facebook home page, or “What are you doing”, which is on Twitter. Publicizing where you are or where you plan to be has had some dangerous results as the popularity of social media has grown.

Some homeowners have found the consequences for making their lives more public via social media have been rather devastating. After Tweeting that he was going to be out of town, a Mesa, Arizona man came home to find his home had been burglarized. Thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment was stolen and because so many people had access to this information on the internet, finding the culprit is nearly impossible.

Jacksonville, NC home builder Mark Johnson Custom Homes, Inc urges you to be wary of what information you choose to post. When leaving your home for an extended period of time, opt to wait until after a trip to say where you went and what exciting things you did.

Courtesy of Dan York, www.disruptiveconversations.com

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