Tech Talk: Breaking the "Instagram or it didn't happen" rule

If you're my friend on Facebook or follow me on Twitter or on my poor, neglected Instagram, you didn't know my family went on vacation until we'd returned home.

While we didn't "unplug" on vacation, my husband and I very intentionally didn't share our thoughts or photos of vacation while we were there. It was beautiful, but we kept it all to ourselves until we got home.

We just didn't want to let the whole world know that nobody was home at our house. It's a safety thing.

You might think that if you mark your Facebook posts "friends" instead of "public" that you're safer. And you are. But you never know who's looking over your friends' shoulders. As for Twitter and Instagram, everything you tweet and 'gram is broadcast for the whole world to see.

And it's not like we have a common last name. So we chose the "better to be safe than sorry" route this vacation. My photos never did make it to Instagram. That's OK.

I was reminded, by doing this, that I don't have to tweet every little thought that comes into my head. When I'm at home, that's very tempting. My phone's right there, after all. I jotted down several ideas for travel tweets during the trip, so here's a little bit of what you missed: