There's no anonymity online, especially if you are stupid enough to post everything about yourself. Boasts of misdeeds on social media sites may stem from the desire to impress, but the consequences, as some are learning, go far beyond the circle of friends who follow you.

Earlier this month, Washington Post writer and editor Marc Fisher's home was burglarized. His new coat, still in the box, was missing. As were his son's iPod, savings bonds, cash and a laptop. His son took the loss well, he says, until he saw his Facebook page.

The person who had apparently stolen the laptop opened the computer and posted a photo of himself to Fisher's son's Facebook page.

In the photo, the man is showing off the cash and is wearing Fisher's winter coat undefined plus "a big smirk on his face," Fisher tells Weekend Edition's Liane Hansen.

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