Facebook Places launches, people turn off Facebook Places location settings to hide
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.
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You have to disable it in privacy settings as well.
and if you want to hide other peoples checkins from littering up your newsfeed, facebook dont give you that option, luckily there is a third party solution that can do this along with hiding lots of other nuisance message types from your feed, get it here, if interested : http://www.fbpurity.com
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