With Twitter being a great service to let your friends, family, and coworkers know what you are doing, and what is on your mind within 140 characters, it can also be used as a source of TMI (too much information). Some users tweet what is on their mind without sometimes realizing the consequences that they create, especially when geotagging.

Geotagging is the process where users tweet or publish that they are at a certain place or event at a given time, giving everyone public knowledge of their whereabouts. As all of us know, sometimes the internet is not a safe place as we try to make it, and this practice can be a great method for letting people know exactly where you are.

Recently, there have been two well-known services that have emerged on Twitter to help you geotag your happenings, such as: Foursquare and GoWalla.

There are various websites out there on the web (such as RobMeNow) that are advocating the dangers of geotargeting, and how it should not be practiced in openly-public mediums, such as Twitter, and even Facebook.

This practice does not only apply to Twitter. When setting up your website to let your customers know that you will be a certain place at a certain time, do not give specifics. This could also apply to your auto-reply e-mails and also your voicemail message as well to help keep your whereabouts and happenings more secretive from the possible dangerous perils of the web.