The Cost of Over-sharing: How Daily Facebook Posting Compromises Personal and Digital Security

This study explores the risks associated with posting often on Facebook and exposes the security threat posed by the use of smart phones in making one’s life vulnerable. By applying architectural and criminological theories such as Routine Activity Theory and Context Collapse, this paper explores how nine specific threat vectors have been created. It is observed that the creation of large sets of daily activity information, check ins, and high-definition media allows determined perpetrators to develop predictive behavior algorithms that facilitate generative AI deep fake extortion, home burglary, and economic fraud. Additionally, using context collapse through platforms means that the overshares by individuals reduce their social boundaries and end up negotiating away the security space for the entirety of the social network. The response to these structural threats requires an urgent change in behavior by learning to disengage from intimate sharing and implementing stringent security measures.