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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/27/2010 12:34:49 PM PDT by libertarian27
So Facebook Places has launched, and so have instructions galore on how to turn off Facebook Places.
"Facebook launched Facebook Places yesterday. Anyone can find out where you are when you are logged in," warned one of my Facebook friends in an update.
"It gives the actual address and map location of where you are as you use Facebook. Make sure your kids know," he continued.
And like other news reports circulating around the web and Twitter and Facebook themselves, he wrote one way to turn of Facebook Places information, which of course is defaulted more to share than not to share:
To undo Facebook Places, go to "Account" then "Account Settings" then "Notifications" then scroll down to "Places" and uncheck the two boxes.
"Make sure to SAVE changes and re-post this!" he warned, no doubt just one of the plethora of warnings sure to fill Facebook today as Facebook Places launches.
PC World has additional options to turn off Facebook Places -- including how to use Facebook Places.
Folks who were never Foursquare kind of people may never care much about Facebook Places, but marketers are already learning how to use the location check-in to their advantage.
Besides shutting Facebook Places info of for yourself to hide away, it is kind of fun to see where your Facebook friends are at the moment.
For me, I won't go near it.
Finally Facebook is responding to the needs of the stalker-American community.
I don’t think this is accurate. Notifications is whether or not it notifies YOU of things, with emails.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/08/19/facebook.places.explain/index.html
And the directions for turning it off in the originally posted article are WRONG.
Makes me wonder if Facebook is really just an NSA project. What could be better. Why bother spying on everyone when everyone will simply tell everything they’re doing... and now report everyplace they go.
I’m logged onto facebook in another tab. I am also using the free wifi from a nearby business. ;)
I cancelled comcast. I can get away with it because I use a different location to do my online banking, etc.
I guess I was so busy on FB that I missed it! ;)
Another reason for me not to use Facebook.
notifications alone wont change anything, you need to disable the app
Facebook GLOBAL POSITIONING APPLICATION! To disable feature GO TO ACCOUNT
Private Settings
Scroll down to Applications& Website
click Edit your settings
Info accesible through your friends
click Edit Settings
UNCHECK Places I check in to
SAVE CHANGES
If posting from your cell turn off the GPS on that as well
And the directions for turning it off in the originally posted article are WRONG.
Thanks for the heads up to the FB'ers - looks like a good article, but don't need a CNN title thread on this site..lol;)
It was just that I found the first good article on it there. I didn’t recognize any of the other sites. Not that I go to CNN ever... ;)
Ping
My impression is that it only works from your phone and IPhone is the only one so far. I never FB on anything but my computer, so it’s a non issue to me.
Nothing to worry about if you're just visiting facebook from your laptop or desktop computer.
Thanks for the heads up on that! I’ve got mine now to “ONLY ME”.
Damn.
I HATE FACEBOOK.
I was literally forced into it at work, despite my repeated objections.
LOL!!!
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