A smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, in this file photo illustration from May 2, 2013.

If you are extremely active on Facebook and post every update of your life, you may be falling in the trap. Ask Gina Taylor and she will tell you how a wall post of Facebook affected her family.

The Kamloops woman posted an update of Facebook last Friday that she, along with her family, was heading for the Canucks game in Vancouver. She wrote that the entire family would be out of town. Little did she know that thieves too have Facebook accounts and they thought they had an opportunity to clean the house out when they saw Ms Taylor's Facebook post.

On Saturday, Ms Taylor's family house was ransacked and totally cleaned out. Interestingly, the thieves drove away in a vehicle that belongs to the Taylor. They took everything they could and load up the vehicle as they found keys to the vehicle. The thieves took computers, TVs and other electronic gadgets. They also took a number of jeans and hats. They did not even leave the groceries. Even though one of the neighbours saw them loading the vehicle with so many items but the neighbour presumed that the family was moving out, CBC reports. The Taylor did not have any insurance for the stolen belongings worth about $20,000.

Now, Ms Taylor is convinced that they thieves exploited her Facebook post and broke in. She warns everyone regarding the risks involved with sharing personal updates online. An earlier report by the Metro revealed that over a thousand criminal offences included sexual harassment was incited on the social networking giant.

Several online arguments on Facebook led to physical attacks in the U.K. - according to the police. They also report that Facebook worked as a beneficiary to those criminal offences. The Web site is also used by the offenders to boast about the violations they committed. A husband killed his wife and posted the images of his dead wife on Facebook.