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How do we stop our social media obsession from making us a target for crime?

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How vulnerable are we to crime by the statuses we post on our social accounts? The popularity of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have transformed the way we understand and experience crime and victimisation. But, how do we stop our social media obsession from sharing too much online and making us a target for crime? We visited Dr Jason Nurse from the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford to ask about social media and crime: the good, the bad and the ugly…