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Today's Love Is ... post is a little different. It is about protecting the ones you love and the lengths you will go to.

Love is ensuring the safety of those we love the most but what if those dangers sit on our laptops, tablets and smart phones? Social media is amazing and I am the first to advocate that it is a brilliant tool for promoting and sharing information but what about the information that is private? I am talking about things that are personal and once upon a time, not that long ago, we would have been simply horrified at the thought of strangers being able to look at photos of our homes, friends and most importantly, our children.

It seems almost obligatory to upload photos of a night out, a holiday or a baby scan but what if it were not only your friends that were looking?

Privacy settings are obviously a personal choice but checking into the airport as you jet off for your holiday, in my mind, just tells everyone that your house is empty for a week or so. How many of us know every single person on our friends list? How many of those people have you met in person and ultimately, how many of them do you really trust?

I know I am being overly cautious but I also know that people's desperation can lead them to do obscure things to provide for their own loved ones.

So in my book Love is .... not checking in with Facebook and keeping my family safe.