Read this before you post your location on social media

A social media post shows a celebrity dripping in expensive jewelry at a well-known locale. Shortly thereafter, gunman sweep in to forcibly relieve the celebrity of said bling.

It's a story we've heard multiple times over the years, most recently in relation to the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock on Monday at Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles. The incidents are rare, authorities say, but they're a dramatic reminder that sharing information about yourself online can put you at risk.

We don't know whether PnB Rock (real name: Rakim Allen) was tracked to Roscoe's through social media; we know only that the attack happened a few minutes after his girlfriend revealing their presence in Paris six years ago, have admitted that they do, in fact, scour their potential victims' social media posts for information about .